Sentence examples for is a close reader of from inspiring English sources

He is a close reader of the band's "language of dread".

Like Patrick, his first picture-book invention, who transforms the world with his magic violin, or Mrs Armitage aboard her trusty bicycle, or the marvellous Mister Magnolia, Blake is a close reader of the moment.

Schwartz, who is a close reader of Simon, worries that the profusion of choices we face — a hundred varieties of bug spray, breakfast cereal, extra-virgin olive oil — is turning us into maximizers, and maximizers, he thinks, are prone to misery and depression.

(And Barthelme was a close reader of Freud).

For years, she has been a close reader of the scientific writings of Oliver Sacks, Jonathan Weiner and others.

If you're a close reader of IHT Rendezvous, you're jonesing for a fix of Mark McDonald right about now.

One of his advisers was a close reader of Samuel Huntington's "Political Order in Changing Societies" (1968).

Even in the Army, Mr. Wood was a close reader of the Statistical Abstract of the United States, the Census Bureau's annual tracking of social and economic conditions.

Abraham Lincoln was a close reader of his work, and used to deploy arguments from The Age of Reason in his disputes with religious sectarians, as well as more general Paineite themes in his campaign to turn a bloody civil war into what he called "a second American revolution".

She points out that, whereas neoconservatives talk of clashes between Islam and the West, Strauss was a close reader of medieval Muslim political theory and decried Western intellectuals for their ignorance of the non-Western world: "The Straussians have set themselves to guard the gates Strauss opened".

He is a close reader, alive to words and allusions, and steeped in the history and ideas of the period.