Sentence examples for cold readers from inspiring English sources

Good cold readers are brilliant observers.

"I hope that anyone who comes to science fiction and fantasy cold — readers for whom 'The Illustrated Man' or 'I Sing the Body Electric' are their doorway in — will be inspired to look beyond these classic works to the new masters".

There are many unscrupulous cold readers and "psychics".

Some cold readers actually have accomplices visit or interview the subject prior to the cold reading so that the cold reader can then use this information to dazzle the subject and the audience.

She's just a good cold reader.

If you are a particularly cold reader who thinks that homeless people don't really make art — kid, you just got here late.

It would be a cold reader who would falter here and ask who Adriana really is in Coetzee's post-modernist house of doubles: is she a real person?

The image haunted Gresham for years, supplying Nightmare Alley with its opening scene and inspiring the rest of the book, a violent and disturbing voyage through tarot, mind reading, carnival life, psychoanalysis and spiritualism, as cold reader Stan Carlisle graduates from sideshows to fake religion, seeking wealth.

Much of what a cold reader does is simply repeating back what the subject has said.

"Cold war readers," Caleb Crain says, "decided that the message" of "Billy Budd" was "authority," while "formalist readers... were so pleased with their knowing identification of Melville's slipperiness that they decided that the slipperiness was the message".

In the case of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, the reader is as much the dupe of ingenious spymasters as Le Carré's protagonist, Alec Leamas, himself.