Sentence examples for passages word from inspiring English sources

The novelist responded that "taking passages word for word was not stealing so long as the motives were to recycle them for artistic purposes", citing the influence of Georges Perec amongst others.

Imagine a scale on one end of which are authors who poach plot ideas (Shakespeare stealing from Plutarch) and on the other are those who copy passages word for word: Jacob Epstein, who cribbed parts of his novel "Wild Oats" from Martin Amis's "The Rachel Papers"; the Harvard sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan, whose novel plagiarized chick lit.

He used some of the same language on Sunday, repeating certain passages word for word and telling his audience that his vision "is not a Jewish vision or a Muslim vision, not an American vision or an Arab vision; it is a universal vision".

Then there's the difficulty, absent any extended passages of word-for-word copying, of coming to a firm conclusion about the guilt of the accused.

In the thrilling title poem of the latter, which Imlah includes, Muir's speaker emerges from the Cretan labyrinth, with its "echoing passages" (the word itself turns the winding underground maze into a text), into the daylight world: "the still fields swift with flowers, the trees / All bright with blossom, the little green hills, the sea, / The sky and all in movement under it".

Three Quick Teaching Ideas 1. Make a video featuring a message that has influenced you: Steal The Glossary's idea and take a great commencement speech, a series of quotes from a variety of great speeches, a favorite book passage, or words of wisdom or advice you have found anywhere else and make your own video that illustrates them.

Readers turned to passages containing words like "strangulation," "saboteurs" and "death sentence," which were subtly altered by a voice reading along, or overwhelmed by a tide of white noise.

The Oratorio Society is huge — the roster lists 174 vocalists — but Mr. Tritle had it singing with such transparency that even in the densest passages the words came through clearly, as did each strand in Mendelssohn's rich harmonic fabric.

In this rather sickly passage the word is even capitalised, but I doubt that Waugh wanted us, while the golden lads were splashing and romping, to substitute the word "Hooper" for it.

That narrative mainly takes the form of a long and sustained first-person rant, interspersed with more illuminating anecdotal passages and words of wisdom imparted in the tone of a grumpy uncle.

At the same time, Tracy Juliao, one of the two former students who said Dr. Constantine used her writings without attribution, said an article by Dr. Constantine and another author in the April 2006 issue of Professional School Counseling included about 20 passages with wording that she believed was "verbatim or near verbatim" to her doctoral thesis.