Sentence examples for state of reading from inspiring English sources

ON Thursday, the National Endowment for the Arts released what it called a "bleak assessment" of the state of reading in America.

"The essays are very much pieces about the state of reading and cultural scholarship," she said, "the use of evidence from various realms to make an argument in literary or cultural criticism".

As a publishing obsessive, worried to death about the state of reading given the onslaught of entertainment that embraces exploitation and ignorance over any sort of wit or intellect, my grandest hope is that e-readers bring in that coveted demographic which currently seems to embrace the printed word only to the extent that they skim the captions beneath a photo of a bikini-clad Kim Kardashian.

Surely the heavenly part is that -- again, Woolf's words -- "the state of reading consists in the complete elimination of the ego".

His opinion about the state of reading, in the academy and in the culture generally, seems now to be what makes him most unhappy.

And, in what may be the first tangible result of journalists gathered in a bar to complain about the state of reading, they did something beyond ordering another round.

However, the state of read data needs to wait for the QEMU to send a read acknowledgement response.

"Splendid," you said, disparagingly, as you adjusted your monocle, "that also explains my quantum state of simultaneously reading and not caring".

micromedia) and activity streams and timelines, Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed and the like are competing for your attention and building a community around the statusphere – the state of publishing, reading, responding to, and sharing micro-sized updates.

What book would you require all heads of state to read? "The Art of the Impossible," Vaclav Havel at his deepest, wittiest and most eloquent.

"Suicide by gas poisoning, there being no evidence to show state of mind," read the death certificate, five months after his wife's death.