Sentence examples for move the reader from inspiring English sources

But if the outlines of Justice Sotomayor's life are well known by now, her searching and emotionally intimate memoir, "My Beloved World," nonetheless has the power to surprise and move the reader.

In the interview with McCaffery, he said, "It seems like the big distinction between good art and so-so art lies... in be[ing] willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow.

"These poems," wrote Helen Dunmore, "shine a light into crevices of feeling that amaze the poet as much as they move the reader"; Philip Hensher declared: "I couldn't get Don Paterson's brilliant Landing Light out of my head".

Chair and author Sam Llewellyn, who was published by the late agent himself, called it "a novel that can move the reader from sadness to laughter with alarming suddenness.

But the history of his early life, before Vietnam, is more than a narrative ploy to move the reader along to the disaster that changed the course of his life.

A rich cast of secondary characters populate the narrative, each chapter being told from a different point of view, and it is testament to the distinctiveness of the voices O'Farrell creates that she is able to move the reader seamlessly between them.

It dotted the Is and crossed the Ts, it spelled out the issues, and it even had some poetic flourishes and touchy-feely adjectives and adverbs to engage and move the readers.

But it errs on the side of the mundane, and rarely succeeds in moving the reader to the degree that the material deserves.

A second section moves the reader to New York, in 1986, where June, now middle-aged, is the owner of a successful antique business.

When something inexplicable happens in the transfer from writer to reader, and the piece, despite its imperfections, rattles and moves the reader.

In 2003, "We Need to Talk About Kevin" moved the reader into the head of the mother of a high school killer who snarls out from juvenile prison during visiting hours.