Sentence examples for down the text from inspiring English sources

Euripides could hurl the baby Astyanax from the walls of Troy without my needing to put down the text and flee the room.

When thousands of negotiators leapt to their feet and adopted the agreement by acclamation, they locked down the text that would go back to national capitals to get approved.

We used Burnard's approach [ 15], which provides a systematic method of analysing interview data by breaking down the text into meaning units, developing a category system, and grouping together ideas of a similar sort.

At first, Shepherd balked at slowing down the text.

Negotiators have whittled down the text of the proposed agreement to a manageable length.

"It's not dumbing down the text," said Lisa Von Drasek, the children's librarian at the Bank Street College of Education.

When spoken discourses, such as research interviews, are written down, the texts (in this case the interview transcripts) become "autonomous" with respect to the interviewees' intentions [ 31, 39, 40].

What is the difference between that and sitting down with the text as an editor?

Great slabs of 17th-century prose are slammed down in the text like hunks of uncooked meat.

Performing the work with the house lights down, making the text in the printed programme hard to follow, was a mistake.

We worked on the world of the jail for two or three weeks before sitting down with the text of Julius Caesar.