Sentence examples for better on page from inspiring English sources

There are certain conventions that work better on page than screen and the hidden identity trope is one of them.

To make this view somehow its opposite is to refuse to read what's there on the page, in search of something that might sit better on Page Six.

As he explained to the magazine, Thompson knew some things worked better on page than screen and would require fixing.

Against the background of a flaming Baghdad filmed in Tunisia the Benigni gag parade, which is better on-screen than on-page, begins to roll.

The mahi mahi and couscous of dashi kombu — Japanese dried fish-and-kelp stock — seemed better on the page than on the plate.

They work better on the page; or, even better, in memory, where their cognitive fluctuations, their reversals and counter-reversals, interact with our own.

Prime minister's questions is about watching shouted wordplay that worked better on the page, then forcing out a mirthless laugh for the team.

Nevertheless, falling for these characters in such accidental succession made me wonder whether rock music, long rumored to be deceased, was functioning better on the page than in the recording.

"Lasers" (1st & 15th/Atlantic) is a chaotic album full of gummy rhymes that look better on the page than they sound to the ear, delivered with a tone of tragic bombast.

Mr. McDonell's wisp of a novel (his first), written when he was 17 and published in 2002, reads much better on the page than it translates into a movie.

Monotonously paced and too long, "Jersey Guy" also suffers in its early scenes from attempts at humor that probably read better on the page than they play on the screen.