"Parenthetical" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... parenthetical coefficient is the product of individualities, serves to represent the united powers of all in terms of X, the common base, purpose ...
— Manhood of Humanity. • Alfred Korzybski
... that the Apostle, as is his wont—I was going to say—gets himself entangled in a couple of almost parenthetical or, at all events, subsidiary sentences. I suppose when he began to write he meant to say, simply, 'as Sin hath reigned unto death, so Grace might reign unto life.' But notice that he inserts two qualifications: 'through righteousness,' 'through Jesus Christ ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) • Alexander Maclaren
... with her exceptional beauty of face and form, exercised a fascination upon me so potent that I frequently found it exceedingly difficult to maintain that equable coolness and strict friendliness of behaviour demanded by the exigencies of our peculiar situation. All of which, however, is merely parenthetical. ...
— The Castaways • Harry Collingwood
... you say is true. It is only a parenthetical consolation to me to compare the intelligence of flies somewhat favourably with the intelligence of wheels. But it is the nature of flies to die soon, and the nature of wheels to go on for ever. Go on with the ...
— The Napoleon of Notting Hill • Gilbert K. Chesterton
... Cabinet quickly saw that this request gave them a position of advantage over Germany, which had always refused to make public the terms on which it would end the war. The main substance in this Presidential approach, therefore, would have produced no ill-feeling; as usual, it was a few parenthetical phrases—phrases which were not essential to the main argument—which set the allied countries seething with indignation. The President, this section of his note ran, "takes the liberty of calling attention to the fact ...
— The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II • Burton J. Hendrick |
