Passages such as these reveal Maupin at his rapturous best.
They included passages such as "Why aren't you here to take a good Devonshire walk with me?
There are passages, such as the one below, where the patterns of the words on the page are spellbinding.
The tenderness with which he shaped passages such as the opening Kyrie found its counterweight in furiously dynamic allegros.
Yet there are numerous passages such as only he could have written that are among the best of the century.
It sounded as though only certain choice passages, such as the end of Act IV, had been thoroughly rehearsed.
Anyone who has read that other Tolstoy tome, Anna Karenina, has probably been tempted to skim read certain passages, such as Levin's theories of Russian agrarianism.
Underlinings and marginal comments also highlight the passages — such as those quoted above — whose tart snottiness gave me special delight in the fifties.
Researched passages, such as a vivid and terrible account of the clearances on Rùm, combine well with first-hand experience, including precise botanical, seasonal and sensory detail.
It's worth it for lines like "lead us not into Penn Station" and (admittedly un-summery) corker passages such as: Death watches.
Gone (mostly) were Wolfe's whirlwind literary arpeggios; gone was the extravagant interior monologue of, for example, his essay Radical Chic, with famous passages such as: "Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
