Sentence examples for texts of the sort from inspiring English sources

The truth is that high-stakes standardized tests, in combination with the skills-based orientation of the Common Core State Standards, are de-emphasizing literature in the English classroom in favor of "agnostic texts" of the sort familiar from test preparation materials.

The lack of both a voice-over and reams of text of the sort that often accompanies documentaries certainly makes it easier to concentrate on the performances, but it also means that the uninitiated might miss fado's deep cultural and political importance.

But AT&T's mMode really amounts to little more than text messaging of the sort that busts far more thumbs abroad than here, an awkward implementation of AOL Instant Messenger and a collection of the lethargic, click-happy WAP sites that have been such a flop.

He is not secretive; quite often, he has laid out ambitious plans months or years before they were launched, in the texts of public speeches of the sort that Washington usually doesn't pay much attention to — so-called "major policy addresses".

He is not secretive; quite often, he has laid out ambitious plans months or years before they were launched, in the texts of public speeches of the sort that Washington usually doesn't pay much attention to so-called "major policy addresses".

The second issue is how the Mencius text deals with conflicts of the sort exemplified by the sheep-stealing case in the Analects.

One wonders if there is a connection between that text and the sort of thing Samuelsson describes.

"Perhaps the best way to try to get through Kerouac's poems is to approach them not as literary texts but as private ramblings of the sort you might find in the files of a psych ward".

University training in Shakespeare's day centred on theology and on Latin, Greek, and Hebrew texts of a sort that would not have greatly improved Shakespeare's knowledge of contemporary English life.

There is a lot of repetition, a lot of reference to old texts and a lot of generalization of the sort that may be acceptable in a lecture but is frustrating in a book whose title promises convincing answers to the riddles of Sept. 11.

The decision finds little support in the Constitution's text; it is the sort of interpretive leap that, were it taken by liberal judges, conservatives would denounce as "activist".