Sentence examples for proper reader from inspiring English sources

Vladimir Nabokov wrote that the proper reader does so not with his brain or his heart, but with his back, waiting for "the tell-tale tingle between the shoulder blades".

Although the technology is mobile, nobody can interrogate your handset to steal money from it because only a proper reader can deduct money from a phone, and that reader can only work over a couple of centimetres." Motorola has two mobile handsets developed for the Japanese market to enable customers on the Bullet train to buy and store tickets on their handset.

He is not so much a writer's writer (which can suggest hermeticism) as a proper reader's writer.

For Hamann, the depth and meaning of a text go beyond the author's own contribution, and are the responsibility of the interpreter: "Few authors understand themselves, and a proper reader must not only understand his author but also be able to see beyond him" (ZH 6, 22 10 12).

Benjamin's Habilitationsschrift on the Origin of the German Mourning-Play (Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels)—the thesis which would have enabled him to become a professional academic had, he feared, with the death of his intellectual ally, the Protestant theologian Florens Christian Rang, lost its "proper reader" (GB 3 16).

Wilson has really been with me since I was a proper reader.

And us e-readers are proper readers, as Weldon surely knows.

To analyze the performance of backscatter modulation schemes, a proper model for the reader-tag-reader interaction is needed.

When I was young, I used to feel that literature was a club of which I would never be a proper member – as a reader, let alone a writer.

But the ideas that a children's book has an obligation to train the reader in proper moral and political attitudes and that the book should begin with what the child knows in the "here and now" may be more powerful today than ever before.

The lack of a proper conclusion leads the reader to personal considerations.