Sentence examples for immersing the reader from inspiring English sources

The narrative flows seamlessly, immersing the reader in time and place with a striking immediacy.

Yet when it comes to immersing the reader, this lack of restraint often works.

As he did in "The Good Soldiers," Finkel absents himself from the narrative, immersing the reader in the quotidian life of soldiers and their families.

Deep Down Dark begins by immersing the reader in the underground world of the mine, a place most readers will never visit, making it terrifyingly real through careful, vivid detail.

Vargas Llosa blends his quest with tales from the hablador, or tribal storyteller, that his friend has become, immersing the reader in a wearying flow of creation stories, conversations with fireflies, and fabulist factoids: "When you cook a talking monkey, the air is filled with the smell of tobacco, they say".

But where those books evoke Coetzee's native South Africa and the madness of apartheid, immersing the reader in situations of nearly unbearable intensity, "The Childhood of Jesus" is set in a possibly posthumous limbo in which a haze of forgetfulness has enervated most of the characters, as in a paralyzing smog.

COURTESY SKIP HOLLANDSWORTH Hollandsworth immerses the reader in the time and place with meticulously researched detail.

It immerses the reader in a richly peopled, densely imagined world.

"The Arab of the Future" immerses the reader in the sensory impressions of childhood, particularly its smells.

The goal, all agree, is to immerse the reader in the narrative in a way that goes beyond mere imagining.

He can expect acclaim far beyond.These seven stories grip partly because they are long enough to immerse the reader totally.