Sentence examples for reader assumptions from inspiring English sources

Beckett is superb at undercutting reader assumptions with a casual line of dialogue or acute psychological observation: the book reads like Conrad's Heart of Darkness reimagined by JG Ballard.

Instead, they give Google back the white hat they seemed bent on losing over murky Google Reader assumptions about which Friends are derived from vaguely visible Contact interactions in Gmail and Gchat.

But the Journals disturb readers' assumptions in another, more subversive and complex way.

Yet her tone alters little as she grasps the truth – one designed to shake readers' assumptions, too.

"We have enjoyed publishing someone who has always had the freedom to write what they wanted and challenge many of our readers' assumptions.

While not a 5,000 word essay, it challenges our readers' assumptions about the world and we'll continue to experiment with storytelling forms like this.

In 'The Observer: A short history of the world's oldest newspaper' Stephen Pritchard sums up that "the Observer challenged readers' assumptions of Britain's place in the world, its relations with the emerging nations of Africa and the Middle East and it asked hard questions about living in a postwar world dominated by two nuclear superpowers".

From the opening line in Smith's series of novels about Mma Ramotswe (the polite Setswana form of address by which she is known, even to her most intimate friends), it's clear that he's familiar enough with southern Africa to put a playful spin on most Western readers' assumptions.

What constitutes "order" here is likely at odds with most readers' assumptions.

Readers are so familiar now with law enforcement, whether through news coverage or fictional portrays on television, that crime writers do have to anticipate readers' assumptions and find ways to surprise them.

Printed Book vs. E-Reader Assumption: Because it's estimated that making one Kindle creates 22 times more greenhouse-gas emissions than producing a book, e-readers are eco-disasters.