Unlike less confident writers, he never begs for a reader's sympathy on behalf of his protagonists.
Someone far away would open what he had written on someone else's behalf; the reader would savor its kind words or its little secrets, then maybe file it away in a box, and perhaps revisit it weeks later in a burst of nostalgia.
The worse they do, the worse is done to them, and the greater the reader's agony on their behalf.
Naturally, the reader feels queasily apprehensive on Etheridge's behalf.
He is Cardinal Wolsey's protege and then Henry VIII's fixer, but he is, chiefly, the reader's emissary, sent on our behalf into a world that would otherwise be unintelligible.
Based on the books' detailed descriptions of provenances, nosy readers can calculate what Mr. Schorsch and Ms. Smiles have spent at auction on Dr. Katcher's behalf.
sued on Ms. McMillen's behalf.
Mordaunt accepted it on Disamoe's behalf.
In an article in the current Atlantic magazine, titled "A Reader's Manifesto," one B.R. Myers claims to be speaking on behalf of the common reader.
They speak to their readers and on behalf of their readers.
