Sentence examples for reader's desire from inspiring English sources

Reece steers clear of sanctimony, describing his grandmother as "George Washington with lipstick" and toying with a reader's desire to know how much in his love-affair poems is true.

Free is not a viable price point for all digital content, but in this case it reflects the reader's desire to access material in multiple environments without having to pay extra.

More important, there's a way in which his blanket interpretation threatens to extinguish "Pale Fire," stamping out the oxygen of elusiveness that fuels a reader's desire to return to a complex text.

Every sentence he wrote was perfectly crafted, yet he had a natural love of storytelling: his first loyalty was always to the reader's desire to find out what was going to happen next.

"Loving" begins with "Once upon a day" and ends with "happily ever after," but along the way Green thwarts the reader's desire to impose a sense of order on the action.

But despite my wish that on occasion Rubin had gone deeper — and as T. S. Eliot, the anti-Guest, suggests in "The Waste Land," the bottom is a long way down — she keeps admirable faith with one ordinary reader's desire not so much to "try to figure out what the poem means, as much as what the poem means to us in our lives now".

Above all, Austen marks narrative artifice by famously refusing to satisfy her reader's desires for a full-fledged proposal scene.

Evaristo (who is British and biracial) couples troubling stereotypes with scenes of slavery's hardships that are moving but somewhat generic, as if to poke fun not only at a genre or at received notions of race but, more subversively, at the contemporary reader's privileged desire to empathize.

These twisting tales are strongly influenced, as Treglown notes, by the skilfully plotted work both of O. Henry and of the English writer Saki (H. H. Munro), and their power derives, in large part, from the reader's simple desire to know what happens next.

The reader shares the hero's desire that he be erased.

Certainly, there is a dominant white reader's gaze that desires to consume black suffering.