Sentence examples for eclectic reading from inspiring English sources

Ms. Jacobs's thesis was enlarged by her deep, eclectic reading.

Ms. Jacobs's thesis was supported and enlarged by her deep, eclectic reading.

He therefore educated himself, acquiring excellent French, and wide and eclectic reading habits.

The eclectic reading list may have sprung from accidents of birth and detours of life, but it was useful for an aspiring critic.

Together with Stephen King (I have an eclectic reading taste), Binchy is the author who, for me, bridged the gap between childhood reading and adult.

Fløgstad's own poetry, published in Valfart (1968; "Pilgrimage") and Seremoniar (1969; "Ceremonies"), is a skillful mixture of symbolism, wide and eclectic reading, humour, and a responsiveness to both city and village life.

By the time one finishes reading this startlingly eclectic study of trickery during sex, with its tales of demons disguised as lovers, women unknowingly bedding animals, husbands befuddled by their wives' twins, and crying games that invert all notions of gender, one is ready to ask, as Wendy Doniger does, why on earth the sexual act is spoken of as "carnal knowledge".

The list of books and other publications seized by US Navy Seals during the May 2011 raid in which the al Qaida leader was killed reveal an eclectic range of reading material including works by Noam Chomsky, Yale history professor Paul Kennedy, and journalist Bob Woodward, as well as books suggesting that senior US officials deliberately allowed the 9/11 attacks to succeed.

The Farnsworth Room in Lamont Library houses an eclectic collection of leisure reading.

I'll also be reading the exciting, eclectic anthology Ten: The New Wave (ed Karen McCarthy Woolf, Bloodaxe), which showcases work by some of the best young British black and Asian poets writing today.

Gives her opinion of current stars, TV drama, and the books she's been reading, and mentions her eclectic musical tastes, ranging from Purcell to Salt-N-Pepa.