Sunday Sentence
In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
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Sunday Sentence
In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
(A terrible sight: Is anything more un-American than an empty shelf?)
Source: Geoff Dyer, “Existential Inconvenience” (The New Yorker)
Sunday Sentence
In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
Know that we are connected
in ways that are terrifying and beautiful.
Source: “Pandemic” by Lynn Ungar
#Sunday Sentence
In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
Source: Encountered at Grub Street, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts (March 7, 2020).
Sunday Sentence
In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
Harvard changed us, and we changed Harvard.
Source: Kent Garrett, quoted in John Williams, “5 Things About Your Book” (The New York Times)
Sunday Sentence
In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
This proves a rich approach, even if seeing Mann referred to as a “networked entity” might leave jargon-sensitive readers yearning for a purifying retreat at the Berghof sanitarium.
Source: Duncan White’s review of Thomas Mann’s War (by Tobias Boes) for The Wall Street Journal.