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Sunday Sentence

by Erika Dreifus on
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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.”

When I wrote my first essay for Martin’s class I got an A, which back in the dark ages of the mid-1990s was not the baseline grade of acceptability, and actually meant exceptional.

Source: Rebecca Schuman’s Schadenfreude, A Love Story: Me, the Germans, and 20 Years of Attempted Transformations, Unfortunate Miscommunications, and Humiliating Situations that Only They Have Words For.

Sunday Sentence

by Erika Dreifus on
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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 Israeli dilemma: Which alternative is the greater existential danger?

Source: Yossi Klein Halevi, “How Israelis See the Settlements” (The Wall Street Journal). (Photo: cover image for Yossi Klein Halevi’s Like Dreamers, which I am currently reading.)

 

Sunday Sentence

by Erika Dreifus on
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Image credit: Gregory Di Folco (Creative Commons License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/)
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, whatever I may have seen as their limitations of character or intellect, neither was anything like as humanly impoverished as Trump is: ignorant of government, of history, of science, of philosophy, of art, incapable of expressing or recognizing subtlety or nuance, destitute of all decency, and wielding a vocabulary of seventy-seven words that is better called Jerkish than English.

Source: Philip Roth, quoted in Judith Thurman, “Philip Roth E-Mails on Trump” (The New Yorker)