Sentence examples for attempt at reading from inspiring English sources

And so I would like to say here, in this little blog about one's first attempt at reading Proust: you will either be smitten by him or not.

It was a custom during the recent icy Sundays to fetch in his works late in the morming and make a stumbling attempt at reading them aloud, to the accompaniment of hysterics.

I was reading on the shag-carpeted floor of someone else's house, halfway into a book that had been annoying me, but amusing and thrilling me just enough to keep me pushing ahead (this after a failed first attempt at reading Infinite Jest), and I came to the midpoint of Octet.

My first attempt at reading, for instance, D.H. Lawrence was a disappointment — I wasn't old enough, or mature enough, quite yet; now, Lawrence is one of my favorite writers, whom I've taught in my university courses many times.

In spite of these well-documented attempts at reading regulatory DNA, an indepth analysis of the distribution of genomic binding sites and its implications is lacking.

Ask students to remove hats or turn them around so that you foil their attempts at reading their notes.

You may get lost in your first attempts at reading the entire Old Testament, but Genesis, at least, is good for some background and should help you relate to some of the things referenced in the New Testament and the Book of Mormon (the creation, Abraham, the House of Israel, Joseph in Egypt, etc).

According to Ferreiro (1986), emergent literacy emphasizes that children learn and discover literacy through their own attempts at reading and writing.

Much of what Hegel had to say about physiognomy applies to modern attempts at mind reading.

Yet this nifty attempt at mind-reading is completely wrong (and here I was thinking it was only men who couldn't mind read...)...

You may infer that there is some degree of hatred in the thinking behind the message, in other words, but that is little more than an attempt at mind-reading.