Suddenly, most of the raider's list of prizes, once a badge of honor, read like a bill of criminal indictments.
I don't believe the deaths of thousands of young men in Vietnam did much to embolden our national honor (read ego?).
At the groundbreaking for the memorial, in November 2001, I had the considerable honor of reading a selection from Ellison's prose and saying a few words.
Anyone coming to "Matters of Honor" after reading one of Louis Begley's seven previous novels is going to find some familiar things.
The address was read to their Majesties, who listened to it standing, by Mr. J. W. Louth, the dean of the colony, who also had the honor of reading the colony's loyal address to King Edward in 1909.
Elmore LEONARD wrote some of the cleanest prose I've ever had the honor of reading, and by that I don't mean the language he used, but rather his use of language.
I then had the honor of reading her a story, "Jack and the Beanstalk," if my memory serves me correctly.
Anna Durigon, a 25-year-old who'd previously been on a hunger strike – somehow in aid of Venetian independence – had the honor of reading the results.
Blanco, 44, will be the first Latino poet, and the first openly gay man given the honor of reading at a presidential inauguration.
As hard as this book was for me to read at times — seeing myself reflected in ways I never had before and the many parallels to Hoque's experiences and my own — it is one of the most exquisite works I've ever had the honor of reading.
