Sentence examples for the mere reading from inspiring English sources

Janet Weaver, dean of faculty at the Poynter Institute, an educational foundation for journalists, said she was surprised that anyone could find the mere reading of such a list a political act.

And we loved BéatriceBSGE2016's post, in which she says that while she rejects fashion, she came to realize "through the mere reading of a single New York Times article that tags and ideas generated by publicity and subsequent popularity aren't all bad".

But just as Queen Victoria reputedly complained of Gladstone addressing her as if she were a public meeting, I confess that I, as a reader, object to writers addressing me as if the mere reading of an article has enrolled me in a club, "some" of whom may do this or that.

By the mere reading of newspapers and listening to the radio you can understand that there are serious problems existing between north and south.

This dynamic act of translation gives him a deeper insight into the artists' gestures and techniques than a mere reading would.

This true Buddhism held that its practitioners could achieve a sudden awakening to spiritual truth, which they could not accomplish by a mere reading of Buddhist scriptures.

However, Taylor (1986) has argued that summarizing "requires certain written language skills which are apart from and may be more complex than mere reading skills" (p. 206).

It's worth recalling the sequence in Godard's 2001 film "In Praise of Love," in which the filmmaker himself, seated at a park bench, depicts himself as a political resister by the mere act of reading.

One of the joys of reading it is the mere appearance of its pages, for it exploits visually the resources of print like no book before it.

"The world of any moment is the merest appearance," I read.

The level of anticipated attractiveness can therefore be retrieved from long-term memory via imagery, the mere observation of food cues, or by reading of its description.