Sentence examples for pivotal lines from inspiring English sources

(His earnestness worked to his favor on one of the song's pivotal lines, "I'm empty and aching and I don't know why").

When "We Are the World" was recorded in 1985, to benefit famine relief in Africa, Bob Dylan sang some pivotal lines with his usual wayward phrasing.

("Save me," went a pivotal line in one of these; "Help me," went a pivotal line in the other).

Even Rosing's pivotal line is transformed: gone is its crisp wholesomeness and in its stead something sensual, vibrant, alive.

Where did you get it: at the five and dime store?" goes a pivotal line in Pretty in Pink, which is 30 years old this spring.

I watched as Salter gazed intently at McCain throughout, making subtle motions with his hands and face, and when McCain came to the pivotal line in his P.O.W. tale — "I was no longer my own man; I was my country's" — its author leapt to his feet and applauded.

(Weren't they taught "show don't tell" in their creative writing classes at school?) When the husband rumbles his wife's lover's handyman disguise, a supposed life-and-death moment, the husband's inner torment is expressed by hissing his pivotal line through clenched jaws: "What kind of fridge do I have?".

"Alsatian Darn" features the passing couplet "What to do when the things that I want don't allow/For the handful of mouths that I'm trying to feed?" And in "Last Night at the Jetty" Panda Bear flips into his most Wilsonesque falsetto for the pivotal line "I don't want to describe something that I'm not".

It is a telling and sad truth about the memory of the Civil War that this pivotal line has consistently been changed to "let us live to make men free" – anything to make the nation's bloodiest conflict comprehensible and palatable.

"I say we 'we're late' because the emergency has always been there, it's just taken a long time to break free," Williams said of the pivotal line in the film.

In the end, perhaps the most startling aspect of the OJ Trial was that no one ever released a cash-in novelty pop song that hinged on what is seen as the trial's pivotal line: "If the glove does not fit, you must acquit".