Sentences with phrase «brief passage»

Eleventh and twelfth graders would benefit from reading brief passages of literary criticism and then applying them to the story.

One of the pleasures of «Hallows — Part 2» is to see how the film's production team has expanded on relatively brief passages in the book and turned them into satisfying visual splendors.

According to the bestselling book, Oher replaced several F's in high school English by taking BYU «Character Education» courses that merely required Oher to «read a few brief passages from famous works... and then answer five questions about it.»

What is particularly intriguing about these sparse pencil and ballpoint pen annotations (vertical lines in the margins of the article marking a few brief passages and, squeezed into the sides of an ad near the back of the issue, some page numbers and keywords) is that the Marquis de Bièvre played an important role in the development of Hains's art.

In Catholic circles, the believer may not have been so likely to use lengthy passages in the Bible in this way; perhaps he was content to take a very brief passage, maybe only a verse or so, and meditate upon it, or even to use a passage from the Fathers of the Church or some «spiritual classic.»

The fold - out booklet contains «The Conditional Mood,» a nice, thorough essay by critic Dennis Lim that considers the film in terms of Kieslowski's oeuvre as well as Polish political history, plus «Chance or Fate,» the surprisingly brief passage from Danusia Stok's 1993 book Kieslowski on Kieslowski in which the director describes the picture in his own words.

Throughout the video, the Doppelgänger's disembodied voice mumbles brief passages from little - known Russian author Mark Levi's mysterious 1934 Novel with Cocaine, which chronicles an adolescent male's descent into hedonism and drug addiction during Russia's tumultuous years 1916 through 1919.

In spite of all these massive problems, there are brief passages in which Shrek the Third hits its mark and remembers how good it can be.

Here's another brief passage from the book that tracks the story of affirmative action in America — and, for that matter, of the larger political divide in America.

Like the Venerable Bede before him, he considers life as a brief passage out of darkness into light and then back into darkness.

The matter in which there might be spiritual progress in time on a time span extending over many generations of life on earth is... the opportunity open to souls by way of the learning that comes through suffering, for getting into closer communication with God during their brief passage through this world.

In fact, Miliband had simply forgotten the brief passage about the deficit — the one addressing the issue that had hung over parliament like an ominous cloud for the previous four years.

In an interview with MusicJapanPlus, Akira Yamaoka discussed his work in the Silent Hill franchise including a brief passage about his...

Howsomever, this note of mine regarding the brief passage of Blake Edwards's The Tamarind Seed through town engages an issue which, sadly, is anything but ephemeral.

Stellan Skarsgård and Anthony Hopkins are used really only in brief passages, while well - known actors like Idris Elba and Rene Russo appear in roles that seem beneath their abilities.

Indeed, one of the best expressions of Hirsch's thought and influence is found within the Common Core Standards itself in a brief passage that I have elsewhere described as the fifty - seven most important words in education reform since A Nation at Risk.

Told to be more critical of charter schools, we are asked, in a brief passage, to let them continue.

Have them read a brief passage on grade - level, ask them questions about their struggles and successes in reading, and get an overall sense of what students can / can not decode and process.

This brief passage combines geology, social studies, and engineering by discussing plate tectonics, the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906, and techniques engineers use to «quake - proof» buildings today.

A writing prompt is a brief passage of text (or sometimes an image) that provides a potential topic idea or starting point for an original essay, report, journal entry, story, poem, or other form of writing.

As unaccustomed as I am to quoting scripture, especially when it comes to testing cars, there's a brief passage I recall — one of the few times I must have paid attention during Sunday school class — that seems oddly fitting when it comes to Mini's newly enlarged, second - generation Clubman.

As unaccustomed as I am to quoting scripture, especially when it comes to testing cars, there's a brief passage I recall — one of the few times I must have paid attention...

The summary statement is a brief passage in which you lay out your professional status and qualifications without using any personal pronouns.

You can see that this brief passage is written in sentences without any personal pronouns.