Sentence examples for practice of the short from inspiring English sources

The occasion was the eighth annual PEN/Malamud Award reading, and Maxwell was being honored, along with Stuart Dybek, for excellence in the practice of the short story.

My fieldwork method deployed a recursive movement between multiple locations on the island in the form of 'sites hopping', which refers to the practice of the short stay, and a pattern of commuting at irregular intervals to locations all over Soqotra in a manner that simulated the Soqotrans' opportunistic spatial displacements in pursuit of a multiplicity of livelihood-sustaining activities.

This constellation of university programmes produces far more writers than can be published, and all of them practice on the short story.

Part 1, which was a literature review, confirmed what the previous prognostic studies had indicated, that the practice of staying short of the apex with a homogeneous root canal filling yielded the highest success rate (90 94 %), when done by or under the supervision of a specialist.

It was the first story I wrote after a long time spent toiling on a novel, so I think I was out of practice in the short form.

Like al-Qaeda, in other words, they tend to regard those Muslims whose practice of the faith falls short of their own exacting standards as takfir unbelievers or even apostates.

Unamunda, which is practiced in one of the short plays that make up Mr. Ives's "All in the Timing" is the creation of a two-bit huckster, but that doesn't mean it's that different from any other language.

Given the current pressures on GP services and community nursing services it may be challenging to get widespread adoption of evidence based practice in the short term, requiring a major program of education and funding to facilitate penetration of evidence based wound management into these community services.

We looked at the origins of this concept and how it has worked in practice in the short period of time just eight years approved by every country in the General Assembly at the UN in 2005.

In the parlance of Perl culture, Perl programmers are known as Perl hackers, and from this derives the practice of writing short programs to print out the phrase "Just another Perl hacker,".

Epidemiological studies suggest a decrease in the risk of cardiovascular and cognitive dysfunction by the practice of taking short naps several times a week.