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.”
Instead, one family wields incalculable political power, the other pervades pop culture and fashion like an incurable virus.
Source: James Wolcott, “Mother Knows Best?” (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.”
I missed the panic in his eyes, which signaled a scintilla of awareness that he was peddling hooey.
Source: Frank Bruni, “Sarah Sanders Makes the Heart Grow Fonder” (The New York Times)
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.”
Loneliness dissipates when you find comfort and pleasure in your own company.
Source: Helen Betya Rubinstein, “Is There Something Odd About Being Single?” (The New York Times)
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 is mind-boggling to think that a lending library functioned in the midst of Gestapo raids, deportations to Ponar, malnutrition, and unbearable congestion—but the ghetto library at 6 Strashun Street was not just open but also in high demand.
Source: David E. Fishman, The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis (The True Story of the Paper Brigade of Vilna)
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.”
“I used to have a friend that was a lamp.”
Source: Gabrielle Zevin, Young Jane Young