"I'm gonna take a very judicious approach and read her writings and watch closely her confirmation hearings," said Rep. Mark Kirk.
Wind in the Willows might be slightly long-winded and class conscious for today's children, but if you're reading it aloud, judicious skipping is no sin.
But I'd bet that George is a better, if more laborious, reader of Kierkegaard now than he was in his college days, because he brings to his reading a greater variety of experience — and judicious participation in the Internet flux is a crucial, inescapable part of what counts as experience in our times.
You, too, may have thought, "But who can eat this stuff for breakfast?" when reading Japanese Women Don't Get Old Or Fat, by Naomi Moriyama and William Doyle (£12.99, Vermilion), but the judicious addition of nori or wakame to a bowl of noodle soup or stir-fry will tot up only 30 extra calories or so while packing in loads of mineral and trace elements.
But they were members of her family — or more like them than they were like the kind of responsible, well-read, judicious dons, offering syntheses of current thought, beloved of academic historians.
He wanted to capitalize on the benefits of social sharing while compelling people to be spare and judicious in what they suggested others listen to, read and watch.
Next year Johnson's Plan was printed, a prospectus of 34 pages, consisting of a discussion of language that can still be read as a masterpiece in its judicious consideration of linguistic problems.
It is fair to say that whatever your feelings about the question of Iraq, you owe it to yourself to read Mr. Pollack's book, which is both hawkish and judicious.
Even if his subject ultimately remains elusive, Shakespeare "worked diligently, read everything, traveled everywhere" and his "literary appraisal is intelligent and judicious," Richard Eder said here in 2000.
There is no possible insight into the common denominators of best-sellerdom that could turn writing a first novel into a judicious economic decision; there's no algorithm that would change the fact that most Americans read just a handful of books a year, and a quarter of them don't really read books at all.
I had the idea once that each of us should have access to a Responsible Adult, hired to appear in our stead(s) -- someone to "show up" and be reasonable, punctual, judicious and civic-minded on our behalf -- while "we" stayed in bed and ate Oreos, read Salinger and proffered the opinions of an unemployed social critic.
