Sentence examples for alien reader from inspiring English sources

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At times, however, I wondered if Fox might have written all of his book with an alien reader in mind -- someone with no prior knowledge of Jesus and no previously declared opinion about him.

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But it has usually taken the slightly higher road in criticizing him, and when Kesler begins his book by dismissing those who portray the president as "a third-world daddy's boy, Alinskyist agitator, deep-cover Muslim or undocumented alien" the reader is relieved to know that "I Am the Change" won't be another cheap, deflationary ­takedown.

Although very much a product of its time, such a mix would not be wholly alien to readers of some of our public prints or online output nearly four centuries on.

Alien stories draw readers and reader comments — "probably more so than any other phenomenon," he said.

But both Freeborne and the city are alien to the reader, so the contrasts that made "The Chosen One" potent are absent here.

6. Reddit acquired its most popular unofficial iOS reader Alien Blue.

Many of these worlds are alien to British readers, at least superficially.

It's this innocence and indeterminacy — his unworldliness — that probably makes Tintin feel so alien to American readers, and it's also what most recommends him.

It was important to me to pick a location as alien to most readers as it is to my main character, who finds himself a long way from home and utterly out of his depth.

The very concept of your brain not knowing what balance is, let alone managing to send messages to the leg muscles telling them to walk is, I hope, an alien one to readers.

A recent bestselling novel by Kyung-Sook Shin, Please Look After Mother – about a family dealing with the fall-out from the disappearance of their senile mother – was premised on a tradition of family duty deemed so alien to western readers that it is said to have been substantially adapted in translation (by the LA-based translator Chi-Young Kim).

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