Keep it concise and don't stuff your sentence with unnecessary, superfluous, gratuitous content that smothers your prose, muddies your intentions, confuses the reader, clogs up the page with excess text, pads out the work with inelegant drivels, irritates the eye, examines giraffes, and renders your point unclear.
It sounds dry, but the theme is evidently irresistible to British readers: brainy men with debs for secretaries have to solve a giant mystery (German cyphers) at a country-house weekend lasting several years.Crime thrillers and cookery books, romances and self-help texts pad out, as normal, the rest of the lists.
Each generating unit can operate at least 24 hours on 12-volt battery power, which complies with U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration MSHAA) requirements, and contains a telephone handset and text-message pad.
Among its new tricks are the ability to pin a memo to the always-on display, like a permanent sticky pad, text magnification up to 300percentt and hovering over text for real-time translation (with 31 supported languages, in all).
I do most of my reading online, and a few hundred words can take hours to digest a paragraph of text is a launch pad to other places; I find myself falling down YouTube and eBay wormholes, my attention drifting.
Last December AOL acquired Tegic Communications, a company that develops software which makes it easier to enter text using a phone pad.
In December AOL acquired Tegic Communications, a company that develops software that makes it easier to enter text using a phone pad.
The format also included a simulated prescription pad, free text sections to note the diagnosis and management.
Marginally relevant filler — like a chart of Google's top queries from 2001 to 2005, a list of Howard Hughes's lovers, and a rundown of reality TV shows and their earlier televised sources — pads the text, seemingly to generate book-length proportions.
He pads his text with truisms, prosily stated: "Writing a good song is devilishly hard, but even doing so doesn't guarantee success, because the right person has to be found to sing the song".
"In spite of these clear directives," Mr. Fjelde said, "Ibsen translation, even down to the present day, has too frequently suffered from a stiff and hobbled diction -- or, certainly no better, a cavalier freedom that has cut or padded the text".
