Sentence examples for mere reading from inspiring English sources

This dynamic act of translation gives him a deeper insight into the artists' gestures and techniques than a mere reading would.

This true Buddhism held that its practitioners could achieve a sudden awakening to spiritual truth, which they could not accomplish by a mere reading of Buddhist scriptures.

A mere reading of the complaint refutes the first contention and, as will be seen, the second one is not decisive on the question of jurisdiction of the federal court.

Janet Weaver, dean of faculty at the Poynter Institute, an educational foundation for journalists, said she was surprised that anyone could find the mere reading of such a list a political act.

And we loved BéatriceBSGE2016's post, in which she says that while she rejects fashion, she came to realize "through the mere reading of a single New York Times article that tags and ideas generated by publicity and subsequent popularity aren't all bad".

But just as Queen Victoria reputedly complained of Gladstone addressing her as if she were a public meeting, I confess that I, as a reader, object to writers addressing me as if the mere reading of an article has enrolled me in a club, "some" of whom may do this or that.

This book is more than mere summer reading, yet I imagine that many people will eagerly lug it off to their cottages and resorts.

"Most friendship is feigning / most loving mere folly," read one, from "As You Like It".

"I have been to many summits," the European Commission president, José Manuel Barroso, said afterward, but Lisbon was more "intimate, informal" and "a real exchange about the priorities" instead of mere note-reading — and he gave credit to Mr. Obama.

While this acceleration in cross-regional capital flows is by itself remarkable, the bigger story is in the shift we're seeing in the film industry from mere financial (read: arms-length) partnerships to true creative collaboration across geographies.

Though the odds still seem in management's favor, Carly and company nevertheless feel scared enough to resort to ad hominem attacks, most notably describing board member Walter Hewlett Walter Hewlett, who is leading the revolt, as a mere "academic"–read: dotty, eccentric, with fringe (and probably dangerous) ideas about how capitalism really works.