Sentence examples for sinuous syntax from inspiring English sources
Merrill was unafraid of swathing in a sinuous syntax all the words and languages that he knew, not to speak of practicing most of the lyric forms invented by the Western tradition.
Ashbery, the master of sinuous syntax (see his "Three Poems" or "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror") has performed surgery on his poems here, often bringing them into the wry epigrammatic domain of Dickinson: I made a joke about how it doesn't dovetail: time, one minute running out faster than the one in front it catches up to.
Its single, history-slapped village is a whole world, whose heft and weight and strange sinuous tangle of syntax stands for nothing but itself.
Such themes would have tempted a lesser poet into indulgent, ponderous writing, but "Soldiers Bathing" moves lightly on sinuous lines, its rhyming couplets kept supple by the varying line length and the ingenious syntax.
To convey the sinuous logic and rhetorical tricks of the brilliant but devious Guido, the translation should capture the winding syntax of Dante's grammatical construction with its hissing "s" sounds for the Italian subjunctive (credesse, fosse, tornasse).
"I needed something sinuous".
Stately, sinuous and sublime.
Michael Owen's sinuous goal against Argentina?
