Sentence examples for times commentary from inspiring English sources

A recent New York Times commentary questions whether our obsession with smartphones has gone too far.

"The softer tissue of human experience -- culture, religion, values -- also binds Indians and Jews," wrote Sam Freedman, in a New York Times commentary on how Israel and India have been the target of Islamist terrorism.

In 2007, for example, Secretaries of State Ysursa (a Republican from Idaho) and Matt Dunlap (a Democrat from Maine) coauthored a New York Times commentary in support of SDR, claiming it "is a policy that is good for voters, regardless of party, and good for our democracy".

We know that he is a powerful speech maker, but he has the unfortunate habit (as Frank Rich pointed out in his Sunday New York Times commentary) of thinking it is a more powerful tool than it is--and he has a tendency to think so much of his own powers of persuasion that he is in serious danger of overexposure or creating a kind of cult of personality.

Not one of his New York Times commentaries in the first half of 2013, when "austerian" deficit-cutting was taking effect, forecast a major reduction in unemployment or that economic growth would recover to brisk rates.

However, with the Middle East in such flux it is questionable whether scenarios can contribute sufficiently to be meaningful and be timely enough to inform policy decisions, especially given the quality real-time commentary on the Middle East that already exists.

That said, real-time commentary on social networks now means that watching television can feel like a shared experience.

Marginalia is literature's TV recap, although even more satisfying: real-time commentary happening in the core of the thing being commented upon.

Follow @HunterFelt for the best real-time commentary #KingJames June 21 , 2013That seems sensible, if there is such a thing as momentum.

Some Web commenters on the West Coast said they followed along online with the East Coast's real-time commentary, then watched the actual show later; others said they tried to avoid spoilers.

It is not only celebrities who are forced to look to a team to produce real-time commentary on daily activities; politicians like Ron Paul have assigned staff members to create Twitter posts and Facebook personas.