ClearTips: Stunning sentences

To finish a paragraph or point

Finish a paragraph with a short declarative sentence to reinforce your point, put it in a broad perspective, or create a bridge to the next paragraph. You can also inject a bit of your humorous or skeptical self.

Ordinary people may not dine in three-star restaurants, but they have enough to eat; they may not wear Bruno Maglis, but they do not go barefoot; they may not live in Malibu, but they have roofs over their heads. Yet it was not always thus.

Here, the writer is setting up the coming paragraph.

It's not that publishers are irrational or corrupt. They're just cursed.

But this tale of two schools shows that it is possible for poor, inner-city children to get a good education in an orderly and happy school. The things that seem to matter-good management, well-designed lessons, careful planning and high expectations—are harder to achieve than simply throwing money at schools or cutting class sizes. But it can be done.

It's not hard to find the winner in the Sudanese war, or in any war in Africa: it is the microbes that always emerge victorious. Infectious disease flowers in conditions of anarchy.

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