Sentence examples for ordinary reading from inspiring English sources

And he kept not ordinary reading copies, but instead several rare Shakespeare volumes.

But Seung Koh, 11, declares that he never taints his diet of manga with what he disdainfully calls "ordinary reading".

Another variation on the term is "functional literacy," which developed in the early 1970's as a means of measuring people's ability to handle ordinary reading tasks, such as ordering a meal from a menu or finding one's way on a street map.

Ordinary reading demonstrates this amazing human skill.

Voice-modulated ray can sing; flickers because of impulses on it of man's voice; flickerings then directed thru ordinary reading-glass, picked up by photo-electric tube and converted into sound again.

I want the reading to be as much like an ordinary reading-for-pleasure experience as possible, and I don't usually read with a pencil and notebook in hand.

Most of all, however, the site offered an escape from a neighborhood whose guardians treat anything out of the ordinary (read brick and brownstone) as an architectural cataclysm.

The fact that an anti-racist initiative uses the language of nationalist authenticity – "real Australians" – is revealing of the fact that organisations like Welcome to Australia mainly talk among themselves; the supposed "ordinary" (read: white) Australians.

But as a diligent campaign consultant, you can try to present the other candidate as an out-of-touch élitist who doesn't understand the concerns of ordinary (read "white") folks out there in middle America.

2 40 P.M. (Cinemax) DATE NIGHT (2010) Tina Fey and Steve Carell portray Claire and Phil Foster, a real estate agent and an accountant with two children and a house in New Jersey who try to spice up their ordinary (read: dull, dull, dull) marriage by dining at an impossible-to-get-into Manhattan restaurant.

The problem is that ordinary (read poor and without special access) citizens can not adequately counter the misinformation that is leveled at them by monied interests (no matter what those interests are) without devoting a mind blowingly large amount of time to research the issues (time most people spend working 2-3 jobs, raising kids, and you know doing the things necessary to survive).