Sentence examples for fool the reader from inspiring English sources
The best ofthem not only fool the reader but, afterwards, they give us the supreme pleasure of thinking that "I should have got that myself".
Philip B. Corbett, associate managing editor for standards, put it this way: "If the point of native advertising is to fool the reader, that's no good.
As Colm Tóibín once wrote, "As a novelist, he has a way of posing as a philosopher... all the more to fool the reader and cause great shock when the novel turns out to have a plot after all".
I agree that such fictionalizing of fact is unfair to the unsuspecting reader, but I have to wonder if Greenman himself is trying to fool the reader by claiming that his disappointment in discovering the basis of so-called fictitious works is factual, when it may be nothing but fiction itself.
Hagbard Celine claims towards the climax that the entire story is a computer-generated synthesis of random conspiracies: "I can fool the rest of you, but I can't fool the reader.
This virtue-driven approach echoes throughout his entire approach to writing: Stine praises the merits of a detailed outline, and of writing the titles and the endings to his scary stories first, "so I know how to fool the reader and keep them from getting to the end [before me]." "I work backwards from most authors," Stine said.
And both involve an element of guile, whether it's fooling the reader by making tragedy seem lighthearted or turning an opponent's strength against him.
But many of the columns are deft enough, just plausible enough, to fool the casual reader.
The sales come despite a German hacker group claiming to have fooled the fingerprint reader on the iPhone 5s with a scanned version of a fingerprint captured from glass, and reports of security vulnerabilities on some features.
What is treated as though it hardly matters is in fact a clue, and hundreds of pages later we will understand why Lady Dedlock, seeing a child greet its father, returned from work, might be so "out of temper" – and how much of an act (which fools the reader as well as her husband) it is for her to seem "bored to death".
