This clause has met with the usual fate of parenthetic statements which do not quite fall in with preconceived opinions, and is dismissed as a 'manifest interpolation,' a gloss having crept into the text from the margin.
Defn: One of the curved lines () which inclose a parenthetic word or phrase.
Note: The term is so applied from having been the introductory word of this averment or parenthetic explanation when pleadings were in Latin.
Lines 1-11 are in the parenthetic manner, but quite unlike Massinger's.
In style The Duke of Milan is marked by several passages of fine poetry and a comparative absence of the parenthetic construction.
He injured the melody also by casting into the middle of it, like stones into a clear water, rough parenthetic sounds to suit hisparenthetic phrases.
Two short terse sentences are clearer--hence far more effective--than one long one containing a doubtfully clear parenthetic phrase or clause.
The use of long parenthetic expressions within a sentence is also a frequent cause of lack of clearness.
Two short sentences are better than one long one containing a parenthetic expression.
One of the curved lines () which inclose a parenthetic word or phrase.
The term is so applied from having been the introductory word of this averment or parenthetic explanation when pleadings were in Latin.
The parenthetic 'or should' is much in Walton's manner.
The very unfamiliar historical events of the story[14] are introduced, too, in a parenthetic and allusive way, not a little embarrassing to the reader.
Not proper, because the parenthetic expression, "which etymologically means one," is not sufficiently separated from the rest of the passage.
Similar in principle to the enclosing of parenthetic expressions between commas is the setting off by commas of phrases or dependent clauses preceding or following the main clause of a sentence.
If a parenthetic expression is preceded by a conjunction, place the first comma before the conjunction, not after it.
After some brief and parenthetic words of pathetic consolation, he states as the mark of the great transition from death to life, the existence of love as a pervading spirit effectual in operation.
An inverted expression is most injurious, and a parenthetic clause almost uniformly fatal.
Bartle kept his eye on the moving figure till it passed into the darkness, while Vixen, in a state of divided affection, had twice run back to the house to bestow a parenthetic lick on her puppies.
These words together with the two following verses, we take to be a parenthetic reflexion on the reception Christ met with, and the happy consequences to some.
This parenthetic excitement diverted for a few minutes the eyes of Bob and Anne from the trumpet-major; and when the play proceeded, and they looked back to his corner, he was gone.
The trumpet-major sounded from far down his throat what he considered to be E flat, with a parenthetic sense of luxury unquenchable even by his present distraction.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "parenthetic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
