Sentence examples for sticking to the book from inspiring English sources

Early on, he seems torn between two rival impulses: sticking to the book's most absorbing story line — the making of the artist — and documenting the factional infighting among Lesotho's political parties and the South African exiles who took shelter there.

If you want an adult audience to enjoy these films, sticking to the book isn't much of an option.

For a critic, sticking to the books he likes is a service not only to poets but to poetry itself.

Sticking to the books can pay off later on; the government's business department says postgraduates earn £9,000 more per year than those who leave university sooner (though this is also influenced by the fact that cleverer students are more likely to stay on).

In truth, she could have stuck to the book.

But that day, like most days, I stuck to the book, keeping politics on the periphery.

Sue said: 'As long as they stick to the book they'll be fine.'" The search is now on for teenage performers who can fill the roles of the misunderstood Adrian, his best friend Nigel, the school bully Barry and the adorable, heavenly Pandora with her treacle-coloured hair; as well as adult actors who can play Adrian's dysfunctional adult family.

"I think definitely the skeleton of the script must stick to the book, but [the failed scripts] almost tried too hard to stick to the book.

Pretty much stuck to the book, which was what I expected," Bianca Jacques said as she left a Friday afternoon screening of the film at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.

He was keen for me to stick to the books," Mr. Montoya said.

For 20 years, China's government has made it abundantly clear that students and professors should stick to the books and stay out of the streets.