Sentence examples for literary read from inspiring English sources

But despite the novel's ambitious plotting, its clever weaving of fact with fiction, its satirical stabs at the film and television industry, and some elegant sentences and set-pieces (the novel written by the American at the hotel contains some of the most moving writing about war I've read in a while), it fails at being either a fun page-turner or a more erudite, literary read.

It was a small victory — "literary" reading rose seven per cent from 2002 to 2008, in part, Gioia suggested, because of programs like the N.E.A.'s Big Read — but it was a welcome one, because reading has been on the decline in our country for a very long time.

— but they also did a strenuous literary reading.

Literary reading soon grades into complex efforts at mind reading.

They may even have attended a literary reading.

Some literary reading even gets done in places like Crawford, Tex.

This time the endowment did not limit its analysis to so-called literary reading.

Ms. Stever, a prizewinning poet, started the writers' center in 1982 as a literary reading series.

By Caleb Crain A recent study has shown a steep decline in literary reading among schoolchildren.

The highest percentage of literary reading was among whites, at 55.7percentt, up from 51.4percentt in 2002.

Nevertheless the proportion of overall literary reading increased among virtually all age groups, ethnic and demographic categories since 2002.