His brain signals that permission, whenever a sentence fits properly into place, with an intensely satisfying and almost audible little click.
Just replace "Springfield" with "Chicago" and this sentence fits perfectly for Obama, too: During his years in Springfield, Lincoln had forged an unusually loyal circle of friends.
But what I'm really afraid of is that the time must soon come when you won't see what's wrong with that sentence, because there will be nobody left alive who could give a curse about how a sentence fits together.
In linguistics, the number of letters per words and the number of words per sentence fit the log-normal distribution.
Many of the sentences fit comfortably, cool and with room to breathe; others pushed against the character limit, adding to the story's dramatic tension.
I can't verbalise why those sometimes clipped, sometimes languorous sentences fit the setting so well – it's more of a feeling.
Waiting.' Jemima J: 'I love the English language, playing with words, watching sentences fit together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, but sadly my talents are wasted here at the Kilburn Herald.' Hens: 'Am I pursuing him?
The technical problems of making a singable version of an Italian opera can be stated very simply: you have to make English sentences fit music written for Italian ones.
In composing the melodies for the conditions Melody and Rhyme&Melody, the composer made sure that the structures of the sung sentences fit with standard structures of children's songs, taking into account elemental common features of popular children's music, such as repeatability, the use of major and minor harmonies, and a simple rhythm.
Maybe it's because those two sentences fit so nicely into a sound bite.
