Word: paragraphed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Fifty years ago, only the introductory courses had a paragraph description designed to entice undecided first-year students to a department. Departments would also provide a short paragraph of advice on which courses to take...
According to the instructor, the student moved material from footnotes into the main text, started the transcription in the middle of a paragraph, and omitted phrases that contained references to authors that the instructor knew the student wouldn't have read...
...their notoriety in classical music circles. The concert consisted of three wood-wind concertos, a Flute Concerto in G by Johann Joachim Quantz, a concerto for bassoon and orchestra called The Five Sacred Trees by Williams and the Pied Piper Fantasy by John Corigliano. A small highlighted paragraph in the program booklet introduced this program as an experiment in concerto styles, setting forth the traditional three-movement Quantz concerto as a "control" for the more contemporary programmatic styles of the last two concertos. Even in this small paragraph the contrast between the traditional and modern styles becomes problematic: "Taken together...
...they found a tantalizing if tenuous connection between the nuns' schoolgirl writing styles and the likelihood of developing Alzheimer's later on. Out of a group of 25 nuns who died between 1991 and 1995, the researchers reported, those whose writing samples contained the lowest density of ideas per paragraph were the most likely to develop Alzheimer's. Could it be, Snowdon wondered, that Alzheimer's starts so early...
...other hand, imagine a building, like this paragraph, in which there are gaping holes everywhere. This would be the crowd Bright Center against St. Lawrence in the ECAC prelim nary last Tuesday... and most other weekends throughout the regular season...