Sentence examples for looking for readability from inspiring English sources

JP: I guess this is where Stella Rimington [who chaired this year's Booker] got attacked for looking for readability, partly because she was the non-expert judge.

But the Booker prize's administrator, Ion Trewin, defended the judges' choices, saying that they were not looking for readability at the expense of anything else, rather that they wanted to find novels where it was combined with quality and excellence.

In a year when the judges were looking for "readability" and books that "zip along", it was sad they overlooked a novel which had these qualities, as well as being wise, funny and sometimes distressing – It Had to Be You (Harper), the 18th novel by David Nobbs.

However, the prize's roots are firmly in the debate from 2011 when remarks by Booker judges that they were looking for books with "readability" or books that "zip along" brought a torrent of criticism.

We'll be looking for solid advice and readability.

Accusations of "dumbing down" were levelled at this year's Man Booker shortlist when the judges aimed for "readability" above all, but it turns out readability was exactly what the public were looking for after the six novels competing for this year's prize became the most popular Booker line-up since records began.

Her book scores high for "readability", but less well for the kind of excellence Stothard's looking for.

After the 2011 Booker prize drew criticism over judges' search for "readability", and for a book's ability to "zip along", the Folio is looking "to identify works of fiction in which the story being told and the subjects being explored achieve their most perfect and thrilling expression".

As a highbrow panel dropped the previous year's demands for "readability" in favour of complexity and the sheer pleasures of innovative prose, it looked for a while as though it could have been Self's year.

It's all a little different in tone from last year, an ill-tempered affair that will be remembered for the wrong reasons – for the silly, straw man debate about "readability", for chair Dame Stella Rimington's crossness at those who took exception at the idea that we should look for our literature to "zip along".

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