Thomas reviewed Frost enthusiastically, and Frost urged him to turn passages from his prose into poetry.
Turning into Passage Buhan from the main road Rue Montmejean through tall black wrought-iron gates, the hustle and bustle of the Place Stalingrad, the nearby public square with its busy intersection and criss-crossing tram tracks, is soon forgotten.
Any competent copy editor can turn a passage that is turgid, opaque, and filled with grammatical errors into a passage that is turgid, opaque, and free of grammatical errors.
I turned The Passage's pages feverishly to find out what happened next.
But Mr. Schneiderman and others want the city to turn the passage over to the M.T.A., which they say has more experience in maintaining tunnels.
Robertson forgoes the poem's Sapphic stanza form, which seems reasonable, but he also turns the passage's deliciously bizarre doubled metaphor (an oak tree is like an elk turned to stone) into a less jarring formulation.
His tempos have generally worked for me, and they did here, even when he turned a passage from "Solace: A Mexican Sere- nade" into a sort of dreamy medi- tation.
Given the task of killing 16 ancient colossi by a strange double-voiced entity, you gallop across the landscape in search of victims in turn, passages of pastoral exploration punctuated by epic battles.
In one passage, turning her back to the audience, she let her shoulders rapidly rise and fall, all in time with the drum.
At the forth turning in the passage an IND station appears suddenly, and toward the end of the passageway, you must walk under a manmade waterfall, which was created to carry off waste material.
