Sentence examples for first reading he from inspiring English sources

Recalling his first reading, he said: "For me, as a Plath scholar, it was all new".

"I'm not surprised some people don't get it at the first reading," he said, adding that it might have to be read many times, the way people pore over philosophy books.

Lee Smolin, a theoretical physicist at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada, and a skeptic of the anthropic principle, says the paper's argument is a novel one and that on first reading he didn't see any obvious mistakes.

"After his first reading, he kept haunting me.

When Gilbert gave it to me at the first reading he said, 'Here you are, Jessie, you needn't act this, it's you.'" Gilbert was even more nervous than usual on the first night of Yeomen and came backstage to give his best wishes to the cast.

Her break came straight after the Paris Conservatory, when Truffaut picked her – on the second reading, he hadn't liked the first – to play the script girl Joelle in Day for Night.

But on my second reading, he struck me, strangely, as in fact the very opposite, one of the last pure tragedians, using his majestically immaculate narrative to press Isabel Archer through the machinery of her ordained fate.

Mr. Reynolds was singing in the chorus when, at the fourth reading, he was asked to play Seaweed, who teaches Tracy the funky dance steps that land her a spot on "The Corny Collins Show".

He added that when he first read it, he "knew it wasn't going to be 'Atonement,' " the recent novel by Mr. Amis's countryman and contemporary Ian McEwan, which was Mr. McEwan's commercial breakthrough in the United States.

During rehearsals, he'd asked Wright, "Do I make you nervous?" At the first read-through, he stopped and said, "I'm gonna be straight with you all.

"I was horrified when I first read it," he says.