And how is the borrowing of memorable passages worse than far more calculated aspects of image-making?

Paul, in a memorable passage, advised the faithful, while waiting for the parousia, to obey duly-constituted authority.

It is not that bright and memorable passages are absent.

Paumgarten included this memorable passage about the perils of avalanches:

When you're a reader, you take your memorable passages where you find them - sometimes in unexpected, unheralded places.

However, it contains some particularly memorable passages - usually in flashback.

In one of its most memorable passages, Bashō suggests that "every day is a journey, and the journey itself home."

In a memorable passage, Maria no longer recognizes him, because she sees him for what he truly is: a ridiculous and horrible old man.

There is a memorable passage about disgusting soup served in a Welsh hotel 'with triumph'.