Sentence examples for readability excellence from inspiring English sources

Forget "readability"; excellence this year will be defined through language and imagination.

Few literary controversies filled newspaper columns in 2011 as much as the commentary about the short list for the Man Booker Prize, which critics claimed had prioritized readability over literary excellence and damaged the award's prestige.

"Our judging meeting fizzed for many hours with conversations about the originality, excellence and readability of the books in front of us," she said.

The prize, often awarded jointly to two books, rewards the all too rare combination of scholarly excellence and readability and is open to authors who are UK citizens living in Britain.

She said: "Our judging meeting fizzed for many hours with conversations about the originality, excellence and readability of the books in front of us - credit to the calibre of submissions this year.

"Our judging meeting fizzed for many hours with conversations about the originality, excellence and readability of the books in front of us, credit to the calibre of submissions this year," said judges' chair Bettany Hughes.

Dismissing that as "tosh", Man Booker's Trewin told The Bookseller: "I think I have gone on record in the past as saying that I believe in literary excellence and readability -the two should go hand in hand".

Aside from its typical excellence and compulsive readability, the book has two advantages.

Her book scores high for "readability", but less well for the kind of excellence Stothard's looking for.

Readability articles included readability formulas and how "readable" health information is.

Now, CrunchGear obviously isn't a shining beacon of English excellence, but we do try to meet a minimum standard of readability.