Sentence examples for read in search of from inspiring English sources

He read "In Search of Lost Time" alongside two academic guidebooks, full of notations in French, and a dictionary.

When I read in search of sheer pleasure and creative reassurance I turn to the stories of AS Byatt for gorgeous prose with so many layers of deep traction and satisfying narrative.

He also spoke about what we look for when we read - his theory is that we read in search of ourselves, not others, and that books are "the only gifts we give not for others but for ourselves".

Nor were they to be read in search of emotional insight.

In the habits of Bennett's own art, Auden figures as one of two early examples of "Literature with a capital L" against whom Bennett as a young man – bookish but never, in his own estimation, well read – stumbled in search of his vocation.

James R. Kincaid admits in his review of my "Jane Austen's 'Charlotte': Her Fragment of a Last Novel, Completed" that he for one reads Jane Austen "in search of sneers" (Dec. 3).

Sorry to all the Manitobans reading this in search of recognition and acknowledgement from beyond your borders.

I read the Kahneman in search of excerpt, but in a sense, I needn't have bothered since we could have randomly selected any 3,000-word 3,000-wordt and it would've been just as brilliant as the bit we chunk.

BAGEHOT supposes that you are reading this column in search of political commentary, not literary criticism.

But, in most respects, Trump struck the Chinese leadership as an oddity, and, as soon as he became President, Chinese leaders started reading his books in search of clues to his thinking.

Beg reads Chinese philosophy "in search of an answer", taking to heart Confucius's dictum about using the right words, without which "what is said is not what is meant".