Sentence examples for write to stand from inspiring English sources

This is why I have decided that modesty must go out the window, and why I write to stand up for a small scheme with a big heart.

Indeed, even after Roman power had shifted to the east, and the Vandal invasion of 455AD had stripped all gold from the doors of the temple, the prefect of Italy, Cassiodorus, was moved to write: "To stand on the lofty Capitol is to see all other works of human intellect surpassed".

People can write to stand out, rather than to fit in.

It "made him too thirsty," she writes, "to stand it any longer".

Hundreds of his more than 1,000 songs became standards, but they were not written to stand alone.

Each play was written to stand alone, but, Mr. Henderson said, seeing them together, audiences could experience a cohesive journey and appreciate Wilson's accomplishment.

"That is a fact, that's not an opinion.'" Cherry admitted: "There's a little of the upstairs/downstairs element" but said the maids had been written to stand out as individuals, not just members of a homogeneous service class.

"The Old Drift" is a strong and confident enough piece of writing to stand on its own two feet and is perhaps not well served by being placed on the shoulders of giants.

As before, every chapter has been written to stand on its own, providing sufficient background for the reader to follow the argument without referring to other chapters―allowing readers to selectively choose those chapters that are most relevant to a particular course, interest, or issue.

Each piece was written to stand alone, and in them there wasn't the room to develop the bigger arguments that I knew the book needed –  ideas about cultural identity, translation, censorship and how stories can shape and change us.

Just as you cannot become adept at making love by thinking about it, you will not be successful as a writer by allowing your thoughts and feelings about writing to stand in for the writing practice itself.