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.”
With a final agonized scream of my own, I put these books away.
Source: Dwight Garner, “Good Paperback Vibrations” (The New York Times Book Review)
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.”
It was like a stream, a nonstop stream of articulate, beautiful thoughts that had been contemplated beforehand.
Source: Elad Nehorai, “How My Grandmother’s Dementia Taught Me To Remember” (Hevria)
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.”
The poll question is faulty because sympathy for Palestinians should not imply hostility to Israel, nor should sympathy for Israel require disregard for the fate of Palestinians.
Source: Tamara Cofman Wittes and Daniel B. Shapiro, “How Not to Measure Americans’ Support for Israel” (TheAtlantic.com)
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.”
Perhaps, half a century on, in our own troubled time, we can appropriate that benediction as the resonant lesson of a brutal age.
Source: Jon Meacham, “50 Years After 1968, We Are Still Living in Its Shadow” (TIME)
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.”
In some places they say when volcanoes
erupt, they spew out dense and monumental
as stones the skulls of desaparecidos
—the disappeared ones.
Source: Olive Senior, “Brief Lives” (from Gardening in the Tropics)