In order to effectively close-read, the selected passage should be short.
The actors in Ms. Mitchell's production, which recalls the work of the Wooster Group in its intricate mingling of sound and video into the theatrical experience, read selected passages from the novel.
As reported in the online edition of business newspaper Handelsblatt, the teachers' association proposed that selected passages from the book should be taught to students aged 16 and over.
Due to the time limitation, we carefully selected passages that definitely contrasted the two models.
Tyukin hadn't been able to find time that week, and had been putting it off all day, but now he had asked his colleague to keep working for a while and had made himself comfortable in a corner by the light of a desk lamp, and started copying into his exercise book selected passages from the "Short Course".
The effort inspires some wild freestyling from trumpeters in the crowd; it's like selected passages from Albert Ayler's Spiritual Unity, played backwards, in a vast tin drum.
Samuel Johnson once cautioned against the practice of "recommending" Shakespeare through the greatest-hits approach of quoting selected passages.
Let's wander over to the Library, where Alba Clemente is reading aloud selected passages from Cocteau's "Voix Humaine" to an audience of crows and pigeons.
The avuncular prof cautions his audience not to read in certain ways (no one cares whether you like the characters or not), and aims to show, through close reading of selected passages of poetry and prose, how to appreciate the best of what's been thought and said.
