When a purchase arrives, it can seem like an afterthought, a prize for being such an astute scholar of prices, such a conscientious, close reader of reviews.
At first, the conscientious reader struggles to consider these passages as though they comprised a tall stack of individual epigraphs.
It would have been easier on the conscientious reader, and perhaps the author too, if this combination of fact and fancy had been presented as a novel.
The more we push back as a culture of conscientious readers, the more change we'll see among writers, artists, editors, and publishers at large.
Given how many poems are on display here, conscientious readers are themselves likely to become a species of hawk -- wheeling over the pages with a raptor's eye (though armed with a pencil rather than talons), seeking out choice twists of language, startling affinities.
Conscientious readers of research should consider whether a given study needs to be statistically analyzed at all.
For conscientious readers and editors, Ecker's findings across the two studies give cause for concern.
No reader can rise from a conscientious study of the pages which follow this article without the predominant impression that, so far as Great Britain is concerned, 1928 was a year of disappointment.
It's a dispassionate approach which refrains from bludgeoning the reader into any pre-determined position: was Ransome a traitor, a conscientious peace-broker or merely, in Lenin's phrase, a useful idiot?
No, just a conscientious citizen.
They were a conscientious jury".
