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The dawn rises, the film closes, and its title becomes less a setting than a form of punctuation: a bearer of history, a monument to a moment.

But she recognises that something like the Oscars is "only a punctuation, a lovely moment of euphoria" in a life dedicated to the writing.

When she mentioned in the Daily Telegraph that she was to write a book on punctuation, a reader wrote to tell her that her own "howlers" (sentences beginning with "And" or containing no finite verb) disqualified her from the enterprise.

What is it with modern authors and disappearing punctuation?" A few other people registered that it had been causing them confusion in the early pages – and a few have noted confusion about why the technique should be employed at all.

The guitarist and singer Ezra Koenig makes references both to a background of privilege (arguments about punctuation, a trip to Dharamsala, and Benetton, a label so out of fashion no rapper would dare name-check it) and to things teen-agers anywhere might recognize (reggaetón and the hip-hop artist Lil Jon).

Harrison had rented the aging 737 to take the entrepreneurs from Dubai to a four-day event last spring he was calling F.ounders Ethiopia — the name and funny punctuation a result of a partnership with F.ounders, a Dublin-based technology conference — and he was worried that some people might take it the wrong way.

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The first punctuation (A-B) of NA RMZ(17) occurred in connection with the vaccination program of the American army began in 1944, and its benefits were largest in the Netherlands 1954 sequence [ 1].

It's astounding how easily you can fuck up a good joke with duff punctuation, an under-employed adjective or the crucial instinct for when to stop.

His death was a punctuation to a long, profane sentence, one which has insulted a great many, and with damning frequency of late.

Each one becomes a punctuation mark, a clear, bold moment in the limited event I have with somebody.

Here's a tip that actors use: If there is a stop punctuation like a period or exclamation point you down inflect or just flat line it.

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