Sentence examples for drops the reader from inspiring English sources

Rather, he drops the reader (and his characters) into situations of the most mind-bending complexity and forces them to work things out for themselves.

The 1928 section drops the reader, with little preamble, into an old Chicago studded with still recognizable landmarks: Maxwell Street Market; Louis Sullivan's foliated Carson Pirie Scott building; the Michigan Avenue Bridge, reached by bicycle, streetcar, and elevated train.

"Forgetfulness," Ward Just's fifteenth novel (Houghton Mifflin; $25), from its first pages drops the reader into a level deeper than animated news reports, into the wandering mind of a middle-aged Frenchwoman while she lies freezing and disabled by a broken ankle on the darkening slope of a mountain in the Pyrenees.

This gives the book a startling immediacy, dropping the reader again and again into+the noise, confusion and horror of a Civil War battlefield.

Moorehead moves breezily through the history, grounding it in the lives of her protagonists, dropping the reader into key events, so that we feel as an almost personal outrage the lurch from the optimism and inclusiveness of the Risorgimento to the brutality of Mussolini's rule.

Grant Morrison's epic conspiracy thriller began conventionally enough, with a young tearaway recruited by a gang of misfit rebels – but then issue five dropped the reader back into 1819 Venice, where two Romantic poets in floppy white shirts walk on a beach.

Even Sony seemingly can't grab onto any marketshare and recently dropped the Reader's price.

In the digital design, video was an integral part of the storytelling: video panoramas as chapter headers to drop the reader into the stunning scenery at the heart of the story; video "footnotes" from the leaked FBI undercover operation; and a narrative video from the point of view of the two sons whose fathers committed suicide that brings a personal and emotional punch to the reporting.

Weiner's latest book definitely lives up to the title, "The Next Best Thing". Weiner never drops the ball as readers have seen in her past releases, and this is especially evident in her ever so famous titles "Good in Bed" and "In Her Shoes". Her books engage readers, bring to life characters that are relatable, and give readers stories that stay with them long after the final page.

Has the magazine dropped from the reader's hand?

"Don't you employ subeditors any more?" That question, or a variation on it, drops into the readers' editor's inbox on a regular basis along with a request to fix an obvious spelling mistake or factual error.