Sentence examples for striking sentence from inspiring English sources

By extension the term is also applied to any striking sentence in a novel, play, poem, or conversation that appears to express a succinct truth, usually in the form of a generalization.

Golding is unrelenting — or, rather, he is until the last page, with this striking sentence: "Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy".

In one striking sentence, Baumbach and Gerwig seemed to set themselves an onerous writing challenge: "Maybe she has some idea of how she thinks the world should work which people make fun of, even she knows is ridiculous, but in the end kind of happens for her".

Another, "Sticks," starts with the striking sentence: "Every year Thanksgiving night we flocked out behind Dad as he dragged the Santa suit to the road and draped it over a kind of crucifix he'd built out of a metal pole in the yard," and is more moving and memorable than a two-page-long story should be allowed to be.

Physical books are full of spatial reference points; an especially beloved book is a physical topography in which we develop a vague sense of which chapters contain relevant information; even where, on a page, a particularly striking sentence or diagram lies.

But then Obama added a rather striking sentence.

And though admitting that "radioactivity seems sinister to the public" and that "[t]he idea of radioactive waste in food is alarming," this record denied the dangers of radioactivity with some striking sentences: "[e]very day [… w]ater drawn from the Columbia River to cool the great reactors at Hanford, Wash., is returned to the river with more than 60 different kinds of radioactive element.

In one of his most striking sentences, he writes that state violence towards those forced to move today, from the Mediterranean to the parapets of Donald Trump's imaginary wall with Mexico, "can almost seem like sovereignty's last gasp".

But what's most striking in that sentence is its confusion of cause and effect.

Consistent with the loss or degradation of automatic "slave" short-term buffering, such patients can demonstrate a very striking form of disordered sentence recall in which long, scrambled sentences cannot be veridically recalled but instead the patients reorder the information back into semantically and syntactically correct sentences (Hoffman et al. 2011, 2012).

He asserted that "The search for extraterrestrial life is really driven by man's rebellion against God in a desperate attempt to supposedly prove evolution!" The most striking aspect of this sentence is that in just 21 words Ham was able to make so many major scientific and intellectual blunders.