Sentence examples for addresses to the reader from inspiring English sources

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Throughout, Declan's increasingly poetic addresses to the reader are juxtaposed against the litigious language of the transcripts from the inquest into Ray's death.

In one of her knowing addresses to the reader, the narrator asks: "Are you imagining, as you read me, that I'm portraying myself?

In a series of flashbacks, Gordon sketches in the background to Pearl's action, but her direct addresses to the reader are intrusive and turn Pearl from a character into an object lesson.

Eka Kurniawan's first novel Beauty Is a Wound has already been compared to García Márquez and Rushdie – it is long, it recounts the history of an "exotic" country and it is studded with supernatural happenings, so never mind that Kurniawan is bawdy where García Márquez is plangent, or that his occasional direct addresses to the reader owe more to oral storytelling than to postmodernism.

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Address to the reader by Martin Gymnich.

It makes room for an antagonistic address to the reader.

His tone of address to the reader is bonhomous, conspiratorial.

It has been said of The Moonstone that the author's imperious address to the reader gets in the way of his or her enjoyment of the story.

Through moral fable and direct address to the reader, he undertakes a reinterpretation of human experience based not on received doctrine but rather on perceived reality.

The narrator's address to the reader also brings to mind a fascinating thing that Pritchett mentions in a 1990 interview with The Paris Review.

For The Testament of Gideon Mack, he introduced a framing device, footnotes, and a direct address to the reader – warning against hurrying through long novels, for example – which seems quite natural to readers of Alasdair Gray.

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