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.”
Did you know that educate and seduce have the same Latin root?
Source: Anonymous, “To the Woman Who Slept with My Husband” (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.”
truth is my brother’s life never really got started.
Source: Jeanetta Calhoun Mish, Work is Love Made Visible: Poetry and Family Photographs
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.”
“Confessional literature—memoirs of having undergone child abuse, of having had alcoholic mothers, unfaithful or incestuous fathers or husbands, of having been oneself an abuser, boozer or cruiser—is, in a nation of victims, very much à la mode.”
Source: A review by Joseph Epstein (of On Life-Writing, edited by Zachary Leader), “The Art of Biography” (The Wall Street Journal)
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.”
Germany owns the Holocaust as no other nation owns its crimes.
Source: Karl Vick (with Simon Shuster), “2015 Person of the Year: Angela Merkel, Chancellor of the Free World” (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.”
The vinaigrette, distinctly mustardy yet custardy, too, is good enough to induce a sigh in memory of Paris brasseries.
Source: Adam Gopnik’s review of Le Veau d’Or for The New Yorker.