Sentence examples for purposeful book from inspiring English sources

Libraries call their bookshelves "stacks," but the only purposeful book stacking most of us do is on our coffee tables, where books are shuffled on and off like favorite playlists on an iPod.

But where the original Atlantic piece delivered a punchy and purposeful argument, the book-length version leaves the reader with a sense of frustration at an opportunity missed.

The reigning Africans champions were outplayed by their more purposeful opponents who booked their passage to the round of 16.

The dialogue, lifted largely from the book, is purposeful but oblique.

But the spider deflects the troll by pointing him in the direction of goat meat, and the troll sets out with frying pan, cookery book and purposeful frown.

There is an annoying, if purposeful, clash throughout the book between Tom Bissell's two personas: mature, judicious historian and puerile, needy son — a discomfort reinforced by the fact that Bissell has tape-recorded most of his interactions with his father and their conversations have the unvarnished, rough-edged dysfunctionality of real life.

But Harvey's placement of these images in her book was purposeful.

Stiles was less enthusiastic, stating that while the book offered a purposeful presentation of the life of Washington, he felt that the book was too long.

Critic Mary Jane Lupton finds the appearance of the word "traveling" purposeful, since it emphasizes the journey theme, one of Angelou's most important themes of the book.

"You can't really fine him - it is almost irrelevant to fine him - so the only purposeful way to bring him to book is to say 'you will stand out one race'".

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