Example sentences of "in short " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Socialist Realism ’ has been described by Ernst Fischer as implying ‘ the artist 's or writer 's fundamental agreement with the aims of the working class and the emerging socialist world ’ ; in short , this is a stance of political progressivism . |
| 2 | In short , from some books the reader may gain moral or political enlightenment , but will be disappointed of developing a personal taste . |
| 3 | In short the pictures in an art museum have been closely monitored , often through decades and in a few cases for centuries , so full descriptions that appear in the catalogues have a thorough-paced authority . |
| 4 | In short : frankly , these days , without a theory to go with it , I ca n't see a painting . ’ |
| 5 | If the term ‘ Abstract Expressionist ’ means anything verifiable , it means painterliness : loose , rapid handling , or the look of it ; masses that blot and fuse instead of shapes that stay distinct ; large , conspicuous rhythms ; broken color ; uneven saturations or densities of paint ; exhibited brush , knife , finger or rag marks — in short a constellation of physical features like those defined by Wölflinn when he extracted his notion of the Malerische from Baroque art . |
| 6 | In short , the increase in earnings from tourism happened in the year after the millennium . |
| 7 | In short , thinking implies something that we can call ‘ a theory of the external world ’ . |
| 8 | In short , a representational theory of the input systems would seem to be a necessity , whereas a representational theory of the central systems would seem to be a non-starter . |
| 9 | Codes , in short , owe their meanings - and the variety that is constructed out of their monotonous elements - to consciousness . |
| 10 | It seems to me that the successful professionals make their money not be selling their wares , but by selling their skills — by writing books , running courses , making videos , holding seminars and giving demonstrations — in short , by teaching others how to do it . |
| 11 | If the private sector expands , staff already in short supply may be further stretched . |
| 12 | In short , I 'm convinced my theme is partly justified by contemporary life . |
| 13 | This results in short positive pulses coincident with the core switching transitions to select the desired pickup of coil signals . |
| 14 | No more seeing into the life of things , in short . |
| 15 | His arguments are fast-moving but inexact , and he engages in some wild flourishes of Hegelian grammar : ‘ Writing , in short , does not ‘ reproduce' ’ a reality beyond itself , nor does it ‘ ‘ reduce' ’ that reality . |
| 16 | Derrida , Foucault , Kristeva , Lacan , Barthes : just reeling off their names is ( as Auden said in a very different context ) ever so comfy , since it safely defers the issues at hand to nothing less than a transcendent signified : in short , to a star . |
| 17 | Their value for the reader lies in enlarging or changing our perceptions , in helping us to break out from a deadening routine ; in short , the carnivalesque : ‘ The prophets of extremity put up a distorting mirror against our world — but one which properly attended to , can tell us something about that world , and about the possibilities of changing it , or changing ourselves . ’ |
| 18 | They should all have read the book , in short . |
| 19 | Many of the elaborate theses on English Literature produced by American students for their Doctorate , and afterwards published , were monuments of misdirected effort ; in short , a true sense of literature as a living thing was lost , and in its place was substituted an investigation after the worse pattern of German ‘ research ’ , deadening alike to those who wrote and those who read it . |
| 20 | As we have seen , there may be cultural barriers to such reading , but leaving aside that potential difficulty , we invite the student to make a unique , personal response to the text , to tune in to the true voice of feeling , to participate in its expressiveness ; in short , to have an aesthetic experience . |
| 21 | In short , what happens is that in England — and here one does mean England , rather than Scotland or Ireland — the non-academic makers and moulders of literary opinion are judging poetry by standards which are sixty years out-of-date . |
| 22 | In short , Eliot has delineated a critic who recognizes public or civic responsibilities ; and unless we are very careful , to say of this critic that he ‘ serves his art ’ may seem a rather sudden cramping and diminution of the claims made for him . |
| 23 | In short , what this has to do with modern poetry is very clear ; what it has to do with modern criticism is not clear at all , since that criticism has , as we have seen , no vocabulary for dealing with it , and moves further and further from finding such a vocabulary , the more it takes its lead from linguisticians like Saussure and Jakobson . |
| 24 | Afghan and diplomatic sources said that the Soviets would provide 2,000 more trucks and fuel tankers , but General Hakim admitted that the real problem will be fuel , which is already in short supply in Kabul . |
| 25 | Sport in Short : Volleyball |
| 26 | Sport in Short : Tennis |
| 27 | Sport in Short : Swimming |
| 28 | Sport in Short : Squash |
| 29 | Sport in Short : Speedway |
| 30 | Sport in Short : Snooker |