DAVID SCHNEIDER The Bronx To the Editor: Douthat's comparison of Mark Helprin's "Digital Barbarism" with Lawrence Lessig's "Free Culture" (June 21) raises the question: Which is better written — a bad argument that uses vivid metaphors, striking analogies and near-perfect word choices, or a good argument that uses solid declarative sentences and few metaphors or images?
So much for a solid opening sentence or two.
For rolling, walking, saying words, independent sitting, eating solids, speaking sentences, and crawling this accounted for 11%, 4 %, 11 %, 10 %, 11 %, 12nd 10% of the responses respectively.
As a writer, Remnick practices a classic journalistic style: concrete nouns, active verbs, graceful sentences, solid paragraphs, subtle transitions.
No relationships were found between gestational age classification considered with birth weight and crawling, eating solids, or saying sentences (all p's > .05).05
By charging them with racketeering and conspiracy, authorities claim they have an easier time building solid cases that produce lengthy prison sentences.
Underlining indicates nuclear pitch accents (solid lines) on the sentence-final target words and prenuclear pitch accents (dashed lines) on the sentence-initial verbs.
This is the meaning of that sentence — 'Everything solid melts into air.' So that's the question: Can we now imagine something completely different, something inspired instead by plants?" Michael Pollan teaches journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.
It's a characteristic Petterson sentence, beginning in solid realism and ending in lyrical suspension.
