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.”
But, placed in history, that war was no more than a skinned knee or a sneeze to mankind.
Source: Yiyun Li, “All Will Be Well” (The New Yorker)
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.”
Tradition.
Source: Taffy Brodesser-Akner, “A ‘Tradition’ Omission: I Had Never Seen ‘Fiddler’ Until Now” (The New York Times)
I am running behind on EVERYTHING this week, and so, I’m sorry to say, I haven’t managed to select a single Sunday Sentence yet.
In its place, may I humbly submit a cross-post from the “Words of the Week” feature on my other blog, My Machberet. (For what it may be worth, I don’t always manage to post that feature every week, either.) (more…)
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.”
My father said he once saw Eleanor Roosevelt
wearing a big hat
hurrying along 42nd Street.
Source: Sarah Stern, “Father Turns 80” (from We Have Been Lucky in the Midst of Misfortune)
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.”
Either way, he was a fearless boy leaping from the nineteenth century into the maelstrom of the twentieth.
Source: David Denby, “Nothing Sacred” (The New Yorker)