Sentence examples for offered the reader from inspiring English sources
And if Mary McCarthy's novels offered the reader mere verisimilitude, Hardwick submitted that "taste and accuracy" were serviceable substitutions for a weak dramatic sense: "The reader follows the parade of tastes and preferences with a good deal of honest excitement and suspense, wondering if he can guess the morals of the kind of person who would cover a meat loaf with Campbell's tomato soup".
But no such caveat is offered; the reader is already being guided incorrectly.
And what does it offer the reader?
His curious work offers the reader a supernatural dip in the spiritual waters of the age.
It offers the reader a rare glimpse into the narrator's otherwise hermetically sealed inner life.
The sense of the poem as an event that offers the reader an experience.
Otherwise, he is mostly content to skim the surface – and to offer the reader whipped cream.
In a story that fairly drips with potential human interest, he offers the reader not one sip.
What she does offer the reader, without a drop of self-pity, adds up to much more.
Mr Spitz offers the reader a portrait of an epicure, and of a life profoundly full, blessed and well lived.
But there we must leave them, with an assurance that Spenser's epic still has much to offer the reader.
