Sentence examples for scant reading from inspiring English sources

Michael D. Fleisher, 36 Chief executive, Gartner Inc. BOOK -- "The Giving Tree" by Shel Silverstein (1986) WHY -- "Much of my scant reading time is used to read bedtime stories aloud to my two boys.

Alfred Chester, so the scant obituary read, was the author of such novels as The Exquisite Choice [sic] and Jaime [sic] Is My Heart's Desire; he'd received a few O'Henry [sic] awards and a Guggenheim fellowship; his criticism had appeared in Commentary, Partisan Review, the New York Review of Books, and elsewhere.

It suggests there is "scant evidence that reading great literature morally improves us," and yet the few studies undertaken so far "don't draw on serious literature but on short snatches of fiction".

Simon & Schuster announced last week that it would open its own online store to sell digital editions of its books directly to consumers, moving ahead with the plan despite scant demand to read such books.

Scant phage-associated open reading frames (ORFs) have been described in M. catarrhalis genomes [ 15], however, no active phages or complete prophages have yet been identified in the species.

Saddam Hussein and both Assads unfurled the banner of Baathism to justify their blood-soaked regimes, even though there is scant evidence they had read the Baathists' turgid tomes.

Wall Street welcomed the news of the tentative settlement, which investors appeared to read as having scant effect on Microsoft and as removing a lingering cloud over its future.

This rigid reading of the Clause makes scant sense and is stunningly retrogressive.

This essay's scant six pages are so bracing, merely reading them makes you feel a little neater around the middle.

Our house was not devoid of things to read, but the offerings felt scant, and were of little interest to me.

When "Beaufort" was first published in Hebrew, the Israeli soldiers who read it might have paid scant attention to its prediction that they would eventually return to Lebanon.