this is a really long sentence:

Early on, Kant’s notion associated critique with the disestablishment of false, unprovable, or dogmatic philosophical, social, and political beliefs, because Kant’s critique of reason involved the critique of dogmatic theological and metaphysical ideas and was intertwined with the enhancement of ethical autonomy and the Enlightenment critique of superstition and irrational authority, or, at least, this has been the ahistorical interpretation of his intentions commonly embraced in contemporary ‘critical theory’ circles.

This is a sentence.

Not this.

Really!

“Early on, Kant’s notion associated critique with the disestablishment of false, unprovable, or dogmatic philosophical, social, and political beliefs, because Kant’s critique of reason involved the critique of dogmatic theological and metaphysical ideas and was intertwined with the enhancement of ethical autonomy and the Enlightenment critique of superstition and irrational authority, or, at least, this has been the ahistorical interpretation of his intentions commonly embraced in contemporary ‘critical theory’ circles,” someone claimed.

This is a very long sentence.

That’s nothing. This is an even longer very long sentence.

Short story “The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez –

Three pages long, and it’s all ONE sentence! PDF

25 to life is a really long sentence.

-D/a

It’s also pretty bad writing. Only after reading the rest of the paragraph did I figure out what they were trying to say. The last clause is supposed to apply to the entire sentence, completely categorizing everything before it as false, which is not something I would expect.

It also appears that the first part was written first, and someone who disagreed came along, but only added to it rather than rewriting it. Without any sources, I’m not sure which POV to believe. so I’m not sure how to fix it.

Maybe it was written by M Night Shaylaman.

It’s from wikipedia, so pretty much.

A bit dry for Bulwer-Lytton, but I’ve seen worse.

This is not a pipe.

This sentence no verb.

Remember, don’t use no double negatives and avoid cliches like the plague!

When Guizot made his famous statement observing that, ’ “Early on, Kant’s notion associated critique with the disestablishment of false, unprovable, or dogmatic philosophical, social, and political beliefs, because Kant’s critique of reason involved the critique of dogmatic theological and metaphysical ideas and was intertwined with the enhancement of ethical autonomy and the Enlightenment critique of superstition and irrational authority, or, at least, this has been the ahistorical interpretation of his intentions commonly embraced in contemporary ‘critical theory’ circles,” someone claimed.', he ushered in a new age of philosophical criticism.

This is a long sentence:

Smiles!

There’s a mile between the S’s.

In case anyone suspected that long sentence composition was a dying art, having faded since its heyday in previous centuries, here’s a modern example by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein from her 2010 novel 36 Arguments for the Existence of God:

That’s the wife of Steven Pinker for you, in case anyone needed more proof that the English language permits an arbitrary degree of recursion in expressing a complex thought. Any typos in the transcription are my own fault; I’m posting from a public library with a keyboard layout that doesn’t feel natural.

The shortest sentence in English: “I am.”

The longest: “I do”.

“Shyamalan”. So close.