Sentence examples for professional readers from inspiring English sources

Rather, boredom — unlike its equally bland smiley-faced twin, interest — is something professional readers, who are expected to keep things lively, would rather not admit to, for fear of being scolded and sent back to the Weekly Reader.

In November 2007, these two forces finally converged with the American launch of the Kindle, the first electronic book to capture the imagination of professional readers - the publishers and literary agents.

Writing a Master's thesis or dissertation has payoffs far beyond writing up the findings of your research; it develops your ability to analyze ideas, synthesize concepts, and communicate knowledge to technical and professional readers.

CALEB CRAIN Brooklyn To the Editor: Maybe "professional readers... would rather not admit" that a book is boring, as Jennifer Schuessler asserts, but I find it altogether fitting that the O.E.D.'s first citation of the noun "boredom" comes from Dickens's "Bleak House".

"At the same time we are developing our web content including creating a comprehensive Cutswatch database of how public sector cuts are being implemented around the UK". In the past year the Guardian has launched 11 online networks aimed at professional readers, signing up nearly 80,000 members who can access information and advice and engage with web communities based around their sectors.

The graphic communication mode of the aforementioned data sets is seen as crucial to bridging gaps in understanding for both lay and professional readers.

Copious and polemical footnotes exhaust even a professional reader's patience.

THEORIES OF HAPPINESS: As a professional reader, I find it charming and not a little delusional that Gretchen Rubin's "Happiness Project" — at No. 6 on the paperback how-to list after 71 weeks — cites serious literature as one inspiration.

As a young man he resolved to become a professional reader of the Sikh scriptures, but instead joined the independence movement begun by Mohandas K. Gandhi when it swept the district where he lived.

The maladies, said Mr. Iqbal, 31, a professional reader of the Koran, are the result of a gantlet of torture, imprisonment and interrogation for which his Washington lawyer plans to sue the United States government.

"The conditions in which we read today are not those of 50 or even 30 years ago," another professional reader, the novelist and critic Tim Parks, wrote in a New York Review of Books essay.