Sentence examples for the ordinary reader from inspiring English sources

In short, Hollander's notes are not for the ordinary reader.

Do you think you might be better than the ordinary reader at literary detection?

The ordinary reader instinctively knows what he or she believes to be a classic.

…Gilles Deleuze "He sometimes tries to explain himself to the ordinary reader.

Do you ever come under pressure to make them more "sympathetic" to the ordinary reader?

But it was Dr. Jekyll both moral allegory and thriller that established his reputation with the ordinary reader.

She has an inkling, though, about why the ordinary readers who buy her books fasten on her poems.

"Just the ordinary readers, even if they're not particularly interested in poetry, or know much about literature, will be amused by the book, because it really tells the story of the 20th century". Dear Editor: A History of Poetry in Letters will be published by Norton a year from this fall, in time for the magazine's 90th anniversary.

The judge, lawyer or ordinary reader looking for accessible and timely accounts or critiques of legal developments is much better off turning to the many excellent law blogs.

Rather than worrying about the agency of author over language, or language over author, she seems to want to elbow aside the professional critic to re-establish the compact between poet and ordinary reader.

Le Carré, who cherishes the work of PG Wodehouse, takes an almost Victorian satisfaction from watching his characters become braided into the imagination of the ordinary British reader.