Sentences with phrase «whose first sentence»

How can one not be intrigued with a book whose first sentence reads, «I seem to have trouble dying.»?

Not exact matches

Be wary of authors whose first language is not English because their unfamiliarity with the language could result in awkward sentence constructions.

Philadelphia's former Democratic district attorney, Seth Williams, whose tenure as the city's first black top prosecutor was mired in corruption, was sentenced Tuesday to 60 months in prison for accepting a bribe.

I retract my first sentence and unreservedly apologise to Curt — nobody with a serious interest in space flight should have their work compared to posts by (a well known space flight forum troll whose name should not be uttered) simply for stating a genuine opinion.

We get our first good look at Michael Fassbender as Callum Lynch, whose death sentence is «commuted» by Abstergo Industries, who find him more useful alive.

From its opening sentence («We rode the hillsides and vales of Missouri, hiding in uniforms of Yankee blue») Woodrell's novel lures the reader into the first - person narration of a young Dutch Southerner destined to become the sort of «hardened youth» whose experience of war and death («we made trash of men and places») is such that when he comes upon two human heads sitting «ripe and pecked» on a pole, he simply notes that one year earlier this sight would have sickened him «beyond consolation».

McMurphy (whose first two names are commonly abbreviated to R.P.) arrives from a work farm where he's been carrying out his prison sentence for statutory rape.

Compare that to a sentence from Collier's Encyclopedia, first published in 1950: «As he makes very clear to Starbuck, his first mate, Captain Ahab envisions in Moby - Dick the visible form of a malicious Fate which governs man thoughtlessly...» Or the description of Ahab in the 1953 Encyclopedia Americana: «a crazed captain whose one thought is the capture of a ferocious monster that had maimed him...» Or even this in CliffsNotes from 1966: «Ahab's monomania is seen then in his determination to view the White Whale as the symbol of all the evil of the universe.»

He's a mindless killing machine, but in a way, his animal instincts made him feel like a domesticated dog turned feral whose circumstances forced him to become a creature that disembowels first and asks questions later (assuming, of course, he can even complete full sentences).

As to the question about documentation, the basic «GISS Surface Temperature Analysis» page starts with a «Background» section whose first paragraph contains the sentence: «Input data for the analysis,..., is the unadjusted data of GHCN, except that the USHCN station records were replaced by a later corrected version».

If you are writing in response to a specific advertised position or you are writing at the recommendation of someone whose name will be recognized by the hiring authority, include this information in the very first sentence of your cover letter.