Breaking news: Sandra Day O’Connor, the first female U.S. Supreme Court justice, whose independence on a court that was often ideologically divided made her the pivotal vote in numerous closely contested cases and one of the most powerful women of her era, has died.
'Sentences that put many modifiers--disruptions, detours---between the subject and the verb, just like this, long, rambling sentence, crafted to mimic yours, are hard to read'