I included this sad snippet of dialogue because it illustrates a problem far more troubling and far more pervasive than even sibling rivalry: the pitfalls of buying consumer electronics online.
That might be just as well; the snippets of dialogue that do make themselves heard are unremarkable.
I have already felt the tug, imagined the snippets of dialogue.
The disappointment of his mother appears even in the terse snippet of dialogue from the boy's mother, who calls him "perfect" as she pleads with the judge.
As my taxi sped down the bleak southern highway to Imam Khomeini International Airport, a snippet of dialogue played, unbidden, in my mind.
In most of the episodes, Mr. Dexter has appeared on camera, sometimes as fleetingly as Alfred Hitchcock, occasionally with a snippet of dialogue.
A snippet of dialogue suggests that Lynn needs a reality check from a full-blooded black woman who is less "complex".
But afterward what rises in the mind's eye, unsettlingly, is not a snippet of dialogue but an image: a masked performer, suspended upside down and making her way across the balcony's black metal railing.
Whether it was Salinger or Ellison or Austen, or a Munro story you came across in a waiting-room copy of The New Yorker, there was most likely a moment, a snippet of dialogue or flight of lyricism that exploded in your squirrelly little heart.
When I first encountered "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," "Moby-Dick" and "Gulliver's Travels," it was "a moment, a snippet of dialogue" and a "flight of lyricism" that exploded in my heart and in my imagination, forever opening the door to the power and possibility of the written word.
