Sentence examples for the epigraph from from inspiring English sources

Even the epigraph, from Capt.

The epigraph from Hans Magnus Enzensberger to Hamilton's memoir The Sailor in the Wardrobe – "Disconnectedness is our identity" – might stand as a summary of all his books.

It is reflected in the epigraph from Slavoj Zizek that he chooses for "Parallax": "the unbearable lightness of being no one".

No introduction, no notes, no help with the epigraph from Dante that ushers us into "The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock".

Carey quotes this article of strange faith in an afterword, and it, taken with the epigraph from Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," perhaps gives a sufficient hint of the novel's animating premise: Bob McCorkle lives.

In a world where, as the epigraph from Zbigniew Herbert puts it, a rat has become the unit of currency, Packer is King Rat, a solipsistic trader in futures, master of an amoral universe.

Even the epigraphs, from dependable literary stalwarts like Lady Gaga and Cypress Hill, seem thrown in for no discernible reason.

The epigraph for "In Evening Air," from Theodore Roethke, told the story of his last years: "I see, in evening air, / How slowly dark comes down on what we do".

In "Prufrock," tension is created by shifting tonal registers: the title itself; the unexpected Italian epigraph from the Inferno; the opening simile comparing the evening to someone in a coma; the couplet about the women and Michelangelo, which seems to belong to a different poem and gets played, for no apparent reason, twice, like a refrain, or a jingle.

The fact that the epigraph was from Led Zeppelin ("There's a feeling I get when I look to the West") seemed somehow key.

The epigraph comes from an advertisement that had appeared in The New Yorker, and the joke that follows is a bit of a friendly nip.