Sentence examples for stir the reader from inspiring English sources
Despite Monk's emphasis on pure science, it is the epic story of the atomic bomb and Oppenheimer's fall from grace in the McCarthyite era that stir the reader, swept up in the torrent of Oppenheimer's life, experiencing vicariously the triumph of the scientists as the Bomb comes to fruition.
Zola's repeated descriptions of the extravagant displays of the ever-expanding Ladies Paradisee, as the store is called, are so sumptuous and — with their dearth of periods — breathtaking that they stir up the reader, as the imagined shopper, to a near-pathological excitement.
In a blog post published this week, Chuck Sudetic, a writer for the Open Society Foundations, a grouping of more than 30 organizations overseen by George Soros, described tracking down the boy, Mentor Malluta, and getting his reaction after learning that an image taken when he was 5 was used this month to stir the fears of magazine readers in Switzerland.
It featured - I hardly dare to stir the memories of older readers - a slightly deranged housewife gaily sprinkling Shake n' Vac powder all over her carpet and vacuuming it up while singing an inane verse about Shake n' Vac "putting the freshness back".
I think the key is the emotional layer beyond simply stirring the reader's pulse; I want to stir the heart.
Unlike "Portnoy's Complaint," it wasn't about sex and masturbation; it was — in his own words — about "some Jewish guys in the Army," which was enough to stir the anxieties of many Jewish readers who called The New Yorker to cancel their subscriptions.
Stir the pot, stir the pot".
And in a fine paradox, it is precisely such reflection that stirs in the reader a desire to make these fictional characters "real", to say, in effect, to the authors: "I know that they are only fictional - you keep on telling me this.
John Murray tends to succumb too obviously to the desire to stir his reader's emotions, and one could say that as a writer he's still in his residency.
The four-part series "Product of Mexico" shook the international produce industry and stirred the conscience of thousands of readers.
