Sentence examples for spent deciphering from inspiring English sources

A lot of time and discussion have been spent deciphering the extraordinary success of "Downton Abbey," but it's actually pretty simple.

So much attention — and promotion — has been spent deciphering the impact Mr. Leno's 10 p.m. slot could have on prime-time programming, and so much ink has been devoted to describing how Mr. Leno's new show would depart from his old one, that it was startling to see how little difference there was.

Most of his professional life is spent deciphering the world around him and unearthing its hidden meanings; he is the exemplary reader who locates Red Rackham's treasure by overlaying three parchments, reading through them and realising that the co-ordinates they yield refer to a wooden globe in the basement of Marlinspike rather than to Earth itself.

Mr. Lamphere, who spent years deciphering the dark secrets of Soviet espionage, was strongly critical of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's crusade against Communists.

Young's reversal seemed to throw everyone, even the people over at the Thrasher's Wheat fan site, who have now spent days deciphering Young's position.

She has since spent years deciphering and interpreting the symbols that adorn the stone and researching the possible implications of the discovery.

Stephen Houston, a 49-year-old anthropologist at Brown University, has spent decades deciphering the Maya language and studying how that civilization perceived the human body.

When he found that he couldn't modify a screenshot from the Nintendo Wii videogame Super Smash Brothers to his computer, he spent hours deciphering the game's code and later worked on other Wii hacks.

Joyce took years over the meticulous planning of his own masterpiece, Ulysses, finically extracting every possible Homeric parallel, gleefully enjoining the "professors" to spend lifetimes deciphering the multifarious allusions.

Anyone wanting to make music from it has to be willing to spend hours deciphering the symbols, and then many more hours translating each constellation of symbols into something that musicians can actually read.

Scientists used to spend years deciphering the role of a single gene; now the name of the game is studying thousands of genes and proteins at once.