The American Scholar recently published a list of its favorite sentences from Hemingway, Didion, Hersey, and others, and Roy Peter Clark responds with an analysis of what makes those sentences so good. Of Hemingway's "Anger was washed away in the river along with any obligation," Clark writes this: "Place the least emphatic words in the middle. The second most important go at the beginning. The most important nails the meaning at the end."
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