Sentences with phrase «bad opening sentence»
My little brother came to camp in 1948 (I was already there), at the height of the war between the brutes and the bitches... Now that wouldn't be a bad opening sentence for the narrative proper, and I am impatient to write it.
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It wasn't even the opening sentence, which is sure to raise a few smiles: «So you've quit your soul - sucking corporate job and are ready to enter the big, bad world of startups.»
It's fairly effective, that is, until the moment when one of the characters says to another: «We are not so different, you and I.» That sentence is so bad, so on - the - nose, you can almost hear the actor opening a tiny drawer labeled «THIRD - RATE THESIS LINES» as quietly as possible before speaking.
«The first national comparison of test scores among children in charter schools and regular public schools shows charter school students often doing worse than comparable students in regular public schools,» read the opening sentence.
Named for the author of «It was a dark and stormy night,» the contest honors the worst possible opening sentence to an imaginary novel.
Since 1982 the English Department at San Jose State University has sponsored the Bulwer - Lytton Fiction Contest, a whimsical literary competition that challenges entrants to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels.
The Bulwer - Lytton Fiction Contest: For this contest, entrants must compose the opening sentence for the WORST novel possible.