Sentence examples for picking up subjects from inspiring English sources

"The Map and the Territory" can't quite decide what kind of novel it is going to be, and moves around restlessly, picking up subjects and briefly favoring them, before returning them to their lightly disturbed corners.

He picks up academic subjects and moderate social skills, but other things also: a hysterical conventionality, anti-Semitism.

Seneca picks up similar subjects (see his Hercules Furens); Milton's Samson Agonistes is a Euripidean tragedy; the search for self in Ibsen's Peer Gynt has its roots in his work.

Plus companies recruiting graduates sometimes use them as a streamlining tool, even though it isn't hard to game the system by picking up easy extra subjects or modules (general studies, anyone?).

So my interest in the subject picks up momentum as I go on.

Not all viewers will agree with this preamble, but the rest of the series puts overt political messages aside and picks up another, less daunting subject, the movie business.

Mr. Gray loops back to pick up earlier subjects and again becomes sidetracked.

The next day, a British destroyer arrived to pick up British subjects marooned on the coast, taking the author back to England.

Be wary of those whom Goff calls academic "tourists," or people with no prior background on an issue who pick up a subject and treat it with a one-and-done approach.

The artist took 18 months to research the subject before picking up a brush.

"It was just at the moment when multiculturalism was picking up steam as an academic subject," said Mr. Holman, who now runs the Bowery Poetry Club.