Sentence examples for closer reading from inspiring English sources

But rewards come on closer reading.

An apparently simple lyric shifts upon closer reading; an oddly haunting snatch of melody repeats in the mind.

Valerie Eliot, who died this week, put it more earthily – if, on closer reading, slightly disturbingly: "He obviously needed to have a happy marriage.

On closer reading, you learn that the skirt was made by Carolyne Roehm, in the late 1980's -- it's something of a shock to think of this period as "vintage".

On closer reading, it seems that Murray's real beef was that these were not "the secret confessions of women down on their luck, lamenting lives woefully misspent, or perhaps a cathartic unburdening.

The reading of the original Platonic (or Aristotelian) text was followed by an 'overview' over the passage (theôria), which in turn segued into a closer reading (lexis).

"If we got any closer," reads the racy tag line, "we'd have to use protection".

A closer read reveals even more detailed suggestions.

Here's the transcript, if you want to give it a closer read.

So much for close reading.

It requires an especially close reading.