Sentence examples for capture the reader from inspiring English sources

Hadžiselimović: In an ironically intoned article in the Atlantic about ten years ago, Alfred Kazin wrote about the compulsion of the American suburban middle-class writer to be a performer, because he has to capture the reader, to keep him interested, to captivate him by some fresh impression of the shared experience.

The power of Mr. Steinberg's work comes from his ability to capture the reader's imagination.

Magazine covers are like highway billboards: you have only a few seconds to capture the reader's attention.

Andrew, or Fred, will capture the reader's attention straight away and has mentioned all of the interesting facts of his life and missing out the unessential items.

Poets, artists and fabulists with South Wales connections, such as Landor, Henry and Thomas Vaughan, Arthur Machen, Eric Gill and Francis Kilvert, are objects of Norton's curiosity but never really capture the reader's, except perhaps the priapic Gill, who is pictured crudely seducing his dairy maids.

One, certainly, is trying to capture the reader's attention, or, in other words, to find a subject of sufficient dignity and importance and universality to write a great novel about it.

Traditionally they were required to capture the readers' attention with the most significant part of the story: in this case the deaths.

If you are trying to elaborate on a specific topic use a short intro to capture the readers interest and then direct them to a specific page on your website to read the full information.

The same is true of Mr. Wayne's narrator, who readily captures the reader's sympathy while conveying the weird isolation and stress that come with pop stardom today.

Right from the very first sentence, the book which launched Gabriel García Márquez to global stardom strikes a tone which captures the reader and opens a new way of seeing the world: Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.

"Hobbs's novella," Friederike explains, "captures the reader from the first sentences … Very quickly we sense that during the intervening years, between childhood and now, much has happened to the young man … The swallows symbolize the freedom he has lost and his undiminished yearning for it".