Sentence examples for reading the collected from inspiring English sources

When I went round for evening stables the other day, I caught him reading the collected works of Seamus Heaney.

In some cases, we might as well be reading the collected prescription notes he filled out for his patients.

About the only way to avoid it is to stay home with the shades drawn, the television and radio unplugged, the phones dismembered, all magazines and newspapers forbidden, reading the collected works of Cotton Mather by candlelight.

Reading Arlene Croce in bulk is a different experience from consuming her in weekly doses, one that put me in mind of the experience of reading the collected essays of Clement Greenberg, another critic who still makes people angry (and whom Croce cites to brilliantly apposite effect in an essay on the crisis of the proscenium stage).

After leaving the country to flee his horrid in-laws, he ends up the captive of a mad, illiterate half-English settler in the Amazon jungle, who forces him to spend his days reading the collected works of Dickens aloud.I do recommend the novel if you have never got round to it before.

And when it turned out that Obama was not into playing that role -- he would not be the sort of black president imagined by white guys who congratulate themselves for reading the collected works of Malcolm X., listening to John Coltrane and Jay-Z, getting the inner meaning of Dave Chappelle, and appreciating the films of Spike Lee -- some white progressives turned on him.

Before writing The Possibility of an Island, he did extensive research into cults, even attempting to read the collected works of L Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology.

To find out whether you'll ever read the collected e-mail correspondence of Jonathan Franzen, Rick Moody, Margaret Atwood, Zadie Smith or Salman Rushdie, turn to Page 14.

"When the first volume of the trade came out, it introduced the characters to a whole new audience, the folks who only read the collected editions," he said.

Will Jay Walker ever stop working and go hang-gliding or read the collected works of Plutarch?

I'll tell you what, if I'd been forced to read the collected works of Knut Hamsun at nine, I too would have gone into the forest; only it would have been to shoot myself.