Sentences with phrase «write long passages»

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(My suggestion is Justin Cronin's surprisingly well written and totally addictive vampire thriller The Passage, which once made a transatlantic flight I took feel about 20 minutes long.)

In a particularly poignant passage, Wallis writes, «When children talk about their favorite kinds of caskets instead of bikes or cars, it is a sign we can no longer ignore.»

Charles Guignebert argued that «So long as there is that possibility [that Tacitus is merely echoing what Christians themselves were saying], the passage remains quite worthless» Tacitus» account was written about 116 AD, quite a while after the time of Jesus» and is quite likely only parrotting what the early christians of that time believed.

Here once more, we find a passage from a Protestant who has long been taken to be the very antithesis of the liberal Protestant (and from the book that was written to be the death knell of liberal Protestantism), providing the same theological monism and skeptical epistemology that Milton first adumbrated and which led, at least in Milton's case, to the very liberal attitudes he had once so actively deplored.

Writing in a linked Comment, Professor Dieter Wolke, University of Warwick, UK, says: «Until not that long ago, being bullied by others was often considered as a normal rite of passage... Any intervention to reduce bullying and the adverse mental health effects caused by victimisation must include efforts to reduce traditional bullying.

She's writing about «people who study people and the things they left behind» — archaeologists who endure stingy funding, ruthless competition, long hours and often intolerable working conditions, all in hopes of documenting a past long gone before developers or the passage of time destroy a site forever.

There are superficial depictions of Crane struggling to get money so he could devote himself to writing poetry and many long passages where Franco reads Crane's poetry.

And, yet, many parts of The Devil and Daniel Webster play like «Faust Meets the Mercury Theatre,» with dazzling time compressions in the writing and editing, extraordinarily mobile camera work, and complex shots involving long, uninterrupted passages of dialogue.

Each Read & Apply includes: - Reading passage (informational text)- Application activity (for interactive notebook)- Writing prompt that goes along with the passage - Photo examples / answer key for each activity Each reading passage is simple & not overwhelmingly long like textbooks are.

This product contains: - 1 short reading passage - 1 application activity - 1 writing prompt that goes along with the passage - Photo example / answer key Each reading passage is simple & not overwhelmingly long like textbooks are.

This product contains: - Reading Comprehension Tips - 1 short reading passage - 1 application activity - 1 writing prompt that goes along with the passage - Photo example / answer key Each reading passage is simple & not overwhelmingly long like textbooks are.

At more than 3,000 words, the Wikipedia write - ups are more than twice as long, on average, as those of Britannica, and almost eight times as long as the passages from the textbooks.

We are now just one year past the federal passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), within which it is written that states must no longer set up teacher - evaluation systems based in significant part on their students» test scores.

Not so long ago, literacy had everything to do with decoding printed passages or writing a decent letter.

All of this is occurring, of course, post the federal passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), within which it is written that states must no longer set up teacher - evaluation systems based in significant part on their students» test scores.

While the construct of the story and the progression of the plot feel artificial in many places, once Harding finds his way into his long, introspective, almost mythical passages, his writing — particularly about death — is gorgeous.

While the construct of Enon and the progression of the plot feel artificial in many places, once Harding finds his way into his long, introspective, almost mythical passages, his writing — particularly about death — is gorgeous.

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Passage of the bill will strain USDA's budget to write new regulations for homes, a long and costly process, and increase the number of USDA inspectors.

Support for oil exploration, as I wrote earlier this month, is a prerequisite to passage of a bill, so a pragmatic president is walking his usual very fine line, with what appears to be a smart focus on the long haul.

If it wasn't true when Professor Rodell wrote this passage in 1936, it's surely true today: The influence of law reviews on the legal profession long ago reached its zenith, and has declined into practical insignificance.

Hiles said studies have shown that maintaining a long - term record of their educational experience can help students improve writing, course passage rates, critical thinking skills and higher job placement.