Sentence examples for problematic books from inspiring English sources

Michael Ravnitzky, a lawyer who blogs about intellectual freedom, said that when he worked at the library in college, he learned how some librarians handled problematic books: They stashed them in a cage in the back.

Last month, in an issue devoted to spring books, The Christian Century, a liberal Christian weekly based in Chicago, asked a few of its editors at large "to name some problematic books -- books whose influence has, perhaps inadvertently, been harmful in some way".

All the books in the SBA have been retro-digitized with the utmost care, and examined with the intention of flagging potentially problematic books for evaluation by this group of historians.

Yet for all its virtues this is a deeply problematic book.

But people briefed on the sales process had said previously that a deal looked unlikely, citing both E*Trade's efforts to slim down a problematic book of mortgages and the volatile stock markets that had given potential buyers pause.

The "problematic book" chosen by Beverly Roberts Gaventa, a professor of the New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary, was nothing less than "The Living Bible," an easy-to-read translation that has sold more than 40 million copies since its publication 30 years ago.

It's a problematic book, crying out for a good editor and better organization, but it's all we've got in English or Polish on the woman who saved 2,500 Jewish children in the Warsaw Ghetto from certain death.

So I guess it makes a lot of sense that he would go from The End of Nature, which I actually see as an exceptionally problematic book, to working on climate change.

But endings are problematic for books with doomsday scenarios.

The Narnia stories certainly have elements of Christian allegory – it's impossible to deny the links between Aslan's resurrection and Christ's in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, or the parallels with Revelation in that most problematic of books, The Last Battle – yet they also incorporate moments from epic poetry, from mythology, and from idealised national history.

Erich Auerbach, the revered literary historian, says that, as soon as Boccaccio touches on anything tragic or even problematic, the book becomes "weak and superficial".