Professor Deaton is a fluent writer, but his book is a demanding read.
His book is a demanding read, with its fair share of mathematical diagrams and equations, but the fascination of the subject does come across.
First and foremost I just wanted to write a great picture book – the kind of book that inspires children to demand "Read it again" at the end – not make some grand political statement.
A demanding read, although written in popular slang in sections, The Waste Land's verses, published in 1922, have been subjected to more close academic study than any other modern poem.
It is also a demanding read – a long, dense, crowded narrative of diplomacy and high politics, in which policies, plans and politicians with unfamiliar names come relentlessly at the reader.
I think it takes a degree of maturity to relish the challenge of a demanding read such as this, and often at 11, 12, 13 or 14, however bright the pupil – including those who will go on to read an English degree and become an English teacher themselves in due course – the density and sheer length of the novels can defeat them.
Barnes's Booker-winning novel is a short, emotionally demanding read about nostalgia, and how we process and make sense of our wending memories.
Music, poetry, painting, sculpture, photography and, yes, films can overwhelm the senses with their naked beauty, without the contemplation demanded of reading Proust or Nabokov.
Rather, Mr. Veerappan's roster of demands reads like a political manifesto for ethnic Tamils and the poor in the South Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, which have a combined population of 100 million.
The demands, read to Parliament by the chairman of a cross-party national security committee, set a tough tone for a long-awaited debate that the United States hopes will bring a resumption of full diplomatic relations and the reopening of NATO supply lines through Pakistan.
