Sentence examples for surface of the page from inspiring English sources

It was Empson who encouraged him to dive below the surface of the page.

He showed Gossage a copy of the 1952 edition which he had bought secondhand a few years ago as well as his reproduction, running his fingers over the surface of the page like a skater doing turns on ice.

Yet there are also passages that rise from the surface of the page to startle readers out of their complacency, and no critic is better than Wood at pointing them out.

With Plumbago, you swipe the surface of the page as though you're flipping the real thing to navigate throughout the notebook," explains Gavin Jancke, Microsoft Research's GM of Engineering, who served as the user interface software engineer for the app.

However, the entire surface of the Folio could not be investigated by these detailed methods as the time for the investigation of the manuscript was limited, and the curved surface of the page required a manual adjustment of the instrument object distance that was not practical for larger scans.

Light: When you look at the page of a book, under no circumstances do you see the light as it travels from the surface of the page to your retina.

The poems run on the volatile fuel of the unsaid: roughly a third relate scenes from the life of Chiasson's absent father, a priest, but only once does an explicit reproach surface on the page: "What kind of game is this, your going away forever, / Sending word, years later, that you'd died?" No Place to Hide, by Glenn Greenwald (Metropolitan).

The idea came to him one day when he was looking through a book of El Greco paintings and saw the light catch the surface of a page at an odd angle, "changing a reproduction of a painting into a shimmering distortion...

Periodically, her hand would reach up and tap the surface of the screen to turn the page.

In Monolith, van Linden Tol created an explosion in which black powder left two monolith-shaped expressions on the surface of pages from The Bible.

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