Sentence examples for trapping the reader from inspiring English sources
His method of trapping the reader into agreement is all his own.
It's more claustrophobic, trapping the reader inside the gloomy head of its narrator, Arvid Jansen.
"Donoghue's great skill is in trapping the reader... in that sordid little cottage," wrote Sarah Perry in the Financial Times.
Misty feels trapped and the reader is granted access to all of her uneasy thoughts as she tries to escape.
By locking us in the head of an unreliable narrator whose only real action, ultimately, is writing these letters, Savage traps the reader in a narrative Möbius strip.
Sure, there's a nice line in Paul Auster meta-narration (are you reading the story or is the story reading you…?) but the problem is that your tale never quite lives up to the tale within the tale – you know, the one so compelling that it traps the reader forever into a terrifying Astral Cult, which takes their money, possessions, LIVES.
Brown ignores all the starchy obligations of biography and adopts a form of his own to trap the past and ensnare the reader — even this reader, so determinedly indifferent to the royals.
If the author can't figure how to get them out of that trap, the readers won't either.
It was always going to be high risk, wagering so much on having as your central character a comic grotesque so loathsome and self-pitying, with thoughts mostly so banal, and then leaving the reader trapped, unrelieved, in his company for nearly 300 pages.
Before you can say sunburn she has trapped her readers between the city limits of this town and they are not getting out until the story is done.
