Word: paragraphed
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...papers, and we need to have some way of getting swiftly at the vitals of letters or articles or presentations. But the habit of skimming is too easily carried over to creative reading. Few things are more rewarding than the way the mind can hover over a luminous paragraph or even a phrase, allowing it to light up the imagination. The way the mind transforms little markings on paper into images is one of the highest manifestations of human uniqueness...
...despair? Of course you do. Do you give up? Certainly, by reaching into your flight bag and withdrawing one of this season's airport novels. You know the kind. Literary wide-bodies with plenty of plot that allow you to leave the real world in the first half paragraph and stay away through several flight-delay announcements. No-qual prose and cereal-box characters are customary, though an occasional lapse into good writing does no harm. The Odyssey and Moby Dick, both wide-bodies before their time, would have been perfect airport novels. Herewith a random grab of half...
OOZING with distortions and hyperbole, the staff opinion looks more like the cheesy garden casserole reviled in its opening paragraph than a sensible analysis of the Democratic gubernatorial primary. And despite the puffed-up rhetoric and tasty criticisms which it hurls at John Silber, it fails to address the issues most pressing to Massachusetts voters: the economy and crime...
...also apologize for what is perhaps an even greater error. During the editing process, the review was changed from its original form. The original review opened with a paragraph parodying Caribbean dialect; the new version greatly expanded on the parody. In an attempt to make the review more humorous, the editing process greatly increased its offensive content...
...most consistent and sturdy feature. Turow writes simply and directly, with sentences that rarely extend for more than two lines. But though they are short, he packs a lot of description into them. Occasionally, Turow carries an extended metaphor that is pithily expressive; he once ties together in one paragraph Clara's preoccupation with music and death...