Sentence examples for act of the readerly from inspiring English sources

Certainty can be overridden by an act of the readerly will.

(For instance: is there any more thankless, underwritten character than Ophelia, compared with the dark complexities of Hamlet?) It is true that all readers and watchers shed gender (and race and sexuality), attaching their understanding and sympathy to people vastly unlike themselves – this is the basic act of readerly empathy.

That her undemonstrative nature would also cause her to amend it, even within the confines of her own mind, shyly, ensures that the readerly cup of satisfaction runneth over.

There's often a knee-jerk feeling of revulsion to contend with – "That's a bit dark", or "Surely they're too young for that?" – the readerly equivalent of the sign against the evil eye.

He manages to deploy the gooey sentimentality (or the adrenaline charge) of these otherwise schlocky plot conventions while imbuing them with the readerly joys of spotting a shared cultural reference.

The king passed the Act of Supremacy.

–The Oil Consumer Justice Act of 1990.

Review the ACT "Question of the Day".

The book's meaning is the readerly equivalent of an inkblot test.

Of course there are important differences between memoirs and novels, but I think the best memoirs have all the readerly pleasures of a novel.

Taken to its logical conclusion, the readerly advice would make of a newspaper a perfectly closed world.