Sentence examples for challenges to the reader from inspiring English sources

Length presents significant extra-literary challenges to the reader.

In essay after essay, he constructs arguments that are urgent challenges to the reader and shows his skill at bringing down large targets with small but damaging phrases, like a sniper armed with dum-dum bullets.

Since that time Ashbery has published the massive book-length poem "Flow Chart" (1991), another book-length poem called "Girls on the Run" (1999) and many new volumes of shorter poems, each coming fast on the heels of the last and posing its particular challenges to the reader.

This presents a mystery writer's classic challenge to the reader: Here are the facts, now put them together.

It's a challenge to the reader of any Lawrence biography simply to keep track of his address through these years.

4 The cryptic/ludic story Here the story presents its baffling surface more overtly as a kind of challenge to the reader - Borges and Vladimir Nabokov spring immediately to mind.

The basic idea that the story is a challenge to the reader, and a fair one, is the motor on which most golden age detective fiction runs – and it is a motor absent from the adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

The canon also - and here is perhaps a particular source of difficulty - presents a challenge to the reader, of a kind which in our impatient times often produces anxiety and resentment.

Pacazo's greatest challenge to the reader is not its slippery way with chronology – "Piura is a city nagged by time, insulted and degraded by time" – but its length and looseness.

The poem Mr. Booker was speaking about, "I, When a Bumblebee Bat," appeared in his book "Tug" (Wesleyan University Press, 1994), and like much of his often difficult work it contorts syntax with startling facility, deftly maneuvers the tools of prosody and leaps boldly from image to image as if laying down a challenge to the reader to follow him.

Some TV narratives, as if half-remembering Dickens's challenge to the reader, try to satisfy the viewer's appetite for plot by providing a kind of plot surplus, giving us so many leads and suggestions that we are almost overwhelmed.