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Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name of the person to whom the sentences are attributed.

I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.

Sentence Definition

(n.) Sense; meaning; significance.

(n.) An opinion; a decision; a determination; a judgment, especially one of an unfavorable nature.

(n.) A philosophical or theological opinion; a dogma; as, Summary of the Sentences; Book of the Sentences.

(n.) In civil and admiralty law, the judgment of a court pronounced in a cause; in criminal and ecclesiastical courts, a judgment passed on a criminal by a court or judge; condemnation pronounced by a judgical tribunal; doom. In common law, the term is exclusively used to denote the judgment in criminal cases.

(n.) A short saying, usually containing moral instruction; a maxim; an axiom; a saw.

(n.) A combination of words which is complete as expressing a thought, and in writing is marked at the close by a period, or full point. See Proposition, 4.

(v. t.) To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of.

(v. t.) To decree or announce as a sentence.

(v. t.) To utter sententiously.

So the particular strengths of the colon are beginning to become clear. A colon is nearly always preceded by a complete sentence, and in its simplest usage it rather theatrically announces what is to...

A quote is a story, suspended in a sentence and treasured through time.

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.

You only spoke a single line,yet it felt like a life sentence.

On the single strand of wire strung to bring our house electricity, grackles and starlings neatly punctuated an invisible sentence.

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation but as a question.[A caution he gives his students, to be wary of dogmatism.]

A young man was hung by a rope made of Stalingrad snow

You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because there's too much going on that you can't take into account. You can, howev...