Sentence examples for lay readership from inspiring English sources

Only in Hellenistic Greece, in Rome, and in China, where there were essentially nontheocratic societies, does there seem to have been any publishing in the modern sense i.e., a copying industry supplying a lay readership.

Kennedy contributed three volumes to the Master Musicians series: Mahler (1974), Strauss (1976) and Britten (1981), all demonstrating a commendable grasp of recent scholarship, while addressing themselves to a wider lay readership.

But if it was just a question of putting across complex science to a lay readership whose attention must be grabbed from the numerous other shiny news stories on offer that would be, if not easy, at least no harder than your average science story.

After his banishment he addressed himself to Italians generally, and devoted much of his long exile to transmitting the riches of ancient thought and learning, as these informed contemporary scholastic culture, to an increasingly sophisticated lay readership in their own vernacular.

On the Parliamentarian side, an official source was published a month after the battle; due to the circumstances of its publication and the high Parliamentarian morale after Newbury, it made no attempt to gloss over errors and was designed to "explain to a lay readership what had happened on the battlefield".

But, even in the mid-1950s, two-thirds of the paper's readership lay outside the city and its influence was already international.

It is of no significance, for example, whether a man actually has the genius, or even the readership, to lay claim to the title of "distinguished author" as long as he understands the knack of projecting himself in that role within the hermetic confines of the celebrity world, where humanity is less significant than its image.

Writings on generation in English, available to a lay and professional English readership, were not confined to English authors, but also consisted of a wide array of translations of European-authored works, both from vernacular languages and from Latin, the international language of knowledge and culture.

And the richest readership lies northward, in The Chronicle's heartland.

Not only does he know who Sylvanus Cobb, Jr. (1823-87), is; he seems to have read all his books (which apparently "helped lay the foundations of mass readership for American fiction") and to have measured opinions of each.

Not only is he aware of Sylvanus Cobb, Jr. (1823-87); hevenen seems to have read his books (which apparently "helped lay the foundations of mass readership for American fiction") and to have measured opinions of them.