Sentence examples for avid reading of from inspiring English sources
When he returned, he began to distill his impressions of the trip and his avid reading of ancient history into "Salammbô," the kind of febrile costume drama his friends had once urged him to feed to the fire.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, labor leaders in women's unions routinely chastised their members for their ceaseless pursuit of fashion, avid reading of dime novels, and "affected" ways, including aristocratic airs and accents.
His sensibility and art were shaped by his avid reading of writers like Dickens, Shakespeare, George Eliot and Zola, just as his admiration for a succession of painters and the ever-growing museum of images in his head informed his evolving vision and techniques as a painter.
Like Austen's Northanger Abbey, in which Catherine Morland is led astray by her avid reading of Gothic romances, Madame Bovary is full of warnings about the dangers of books, parodying critics of sentimental and sensation fiction who feared that words were capable of infiltrating the minds of impressionable (implicitly young and female) readers.
This resonant biography looks at the role that Lincoln's avid reading of the Bible, Shakespeare and other works played in shaping his gifts as a writer, and how his literary skills in turn helped him articulate — and promote — his vision of a new America rising from the ashes of the Civil War.
To these interests and influences, Cooper adds her avid reading of Le Monde Noir (or La Revue du Monde Noir) and contributions from thinkers such as Franz Boas, Jean Finot, Author de Gobineau, along with discourses from Alphanse de Lamartine and his drama Toussaint L'Ouverture.
His poetic gifts as a writer, shaped by a lifetime of avid reading, are matched by a lawyer's appreciation of precision; his writings project "a persona of dignified but amiable authenticity," and do so with a "concision of phrasing and logical tightness".
"The books I like best are the books that make me think," she said after describing her introduction to an avid reading life with the help of libraries at home and abroad.
He won plenty of races and became known as a renaissance man on the backside of tracks for his avid reading habits, his knack for mastering cutting-edge technology before anyone else, and his talent as a photographer.
I knew the culture of America, and thanks to my avid reading habit, I knew what to expect.
