Sentence examples for stone to read from inspiring English sources
As Oscar Wilde observed: "One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing".
It might not sound terribly patriotic, and England's players will clearly dismiss such sympathy, but it would take a heart of stone to read the book and not wish Clarke a bit of a break.
Mostly, they are closer to the mold of the meek, self-sacrificing girl in "The Old Curiosity Shop," who drove Oscar Wilde to joke, "One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing".
(It goes on in the same vein, but those opening lines are, you will agree, special; the guffaw that exploded from me as I read them made me think of Oscar Wilde's famous remark that one must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing).
— Jim Holt At the end of 1973, just after the October War, I was a graduate student in Jerusalem and wrote a long, vexed political essay on the war; I had no idea who might publish it, but I wanted very much for I. F. Stone to read it.
So although Oscar Wilde is said to have quipped, "One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing," the little girl's death is never actually described in the book, Mr. Newlin said, and the term little Nell never appears.
Kalugin explained (in words no admirer of I. F. Stone will want to read) that Stone "began his cooperation with the Soviet intelligence long before me, based entirely on his view of the world".
Stone asked Weiser to read Crime and Punishment, but Weiser found that its story did not mix well with their own.
In an article in the Guardian in 1967, she discussed the importance of children having access to books: "The child from the bookless home comes stone cold to reading; and what do we give him in the classroom?
Portability is a terrific advantage, but not if you go stone-blind trying to read web pages the size of postage stamps.
Stone then asked Weiser to read The Great Gatsby for material that they could use, but it was not the right fit either.
