Sentence examples for close readings from inspiring English sources

But Corbett's "high-voltage poetry course quickly revealed the limits of close reading, or at least of my close readings".

I do close readings of things that aren't meant to be read very closely.

If Raine rarely manages to combine close reading with broader – or worldlier – considerations, at least his close readings never stint on evidence.

Close readings are for cops!

There are numerous other superb close readings.

And his flourishes can make his close readings look fanciful.

Both books toggle between cool close readings and feverish interpretations, even deliberate distortions.

When I look around, I see younger colleagues returning to close readings of literary classics.

Mostly, though, the papers were all good close readings of the show.

He offers sardonic close readings of speeches by Thatcher and Reagan, Blair and Trump.

Weisser maps these shifts through close readings beginning with Jane Austen and ending with "The Bachelor" and "The Rules".