marginalia
Example Sentences
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The strikethroughs and marginalia of Sylvia Plath’s manuscripts can deliver multiple monologues, showing us all that the finished poem leaves unsaid.
From Washington Post
Both book and marginalia are acts of writing, collaborations between author and subject, text and reader — precisely the sort of communal-meaning making to which Barthes refers.
From New York Times
All the while, Rumsfeld produced his proverbs, doodling mystic marginalia in the pages of history, reducing war and torture and other awful realities into blunt queries and gruff turns of phrase.
From Washington Post
The books were crammed with marginalia, as though Roth was having conversations with the writers or making cranky observations about inconsistencies in their work.
From New York Times
Each an epic, the episodes contain so much data and dredged-up Nashville marginalia that you are left equal parts dumbfounded and enriched.
From Los Angeles Times
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