His preparations and launches are soaring reads.
Soars read his lines, and at some point it was my job to interject something distracting, or to go into a fake coughing spasm, or even to say something hostile, such as "You miserable faggot, you're no Edward, let alone Lear!" The thought was that anything could happen during a performance, and the actor had to squelch his real-life reaction and keep going without faltering.
"The ancient library was about openness of knowledge, no taboos, questioning everything, " Mr. Serageldin said as he strolled, hands in pockets, through the soaring 2,000-seat 2,000-seatom in the libreadingmain hall.
(The new banner read "Soaring to Victory").
From 2008 to 2012, as time spent on the web as a whole soared, time spent reading newspapers fell much more slowly.
While reading scores soared on state exams, a nationwide test, the National Assessment of Education Progress, showed only slight reading gains, and said the gap between black and white achievement in Texas had continued to grow.
But his military bearing, soaring voice and unaffected reading of 400-year-old prose all lend themselves so well to Shakespeare that directors can't be faulted for typecasting.
After reading "The Disabled Soar on Poetry's Wings" (Arts pages, Jan . 25, about college students helping the disabled free their spirits through writing poetry, I could not get it out of my mind.
You've read all about Frank Gehry's soaring Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, but did you know about Plentzia?
In the past two generations the proportion of Arabs who can read has soared from less than a quarter to more than three-quarters; as in Reformation Europe, their reading of first choice has been religious.
