Here he is at the opening of the blurb for Robert Graves's The White Goddess: "This is a prodigious, monstrous, stupefying, indescribable book: the outcome of vast reading and curious researches into strange territories of folk-lore, legend, religion and magic".
From his always vast reading he absorbed the violence of society.
And, who would not want to leaf through a book at least once in their lives in Charles Rennie Mackintosh's transcendent Glasgow School of Art Library, the vast main reading room of the New York Public Library, or the haunting new Grimm Centre in Berlin named for the dictionary-compiling brothers, and designed by the Swiss architect Max Dudler in a relentless rhythm of hypnotic timber stacks?
For other predicted precursors for which matching small RNA reads were recovered, the vast majority of reads conform to the sequences indicated in Table 1 [see also Additional File 1: Supplemental figure S3], consistent with the primary requirement for the annotation of plant miRNA sequences [ 30].
The Kindle Paperwhite's features and price, coupled with Amazon's vast collection of reading material, make it the best device dedicated to reading. .
To assemble a genome sequence, it is necessary to identify overlaps of individual reads among vast numbers of other reads.
Before we met, I was sent a vast amount of reading material, including a paper touchingly described by Dasgupta as "somewhat informal", but still containing much algebra.
If James has a weakness among an armoury of strengths, it's his tendency to drop his vast hinterland of reading into subjects that can't quite sustain the impact.
This is not always a boon: directors find themselves with vast piles of reading matter, but say plaintively that, if they asked for less, they might miss something important.One result of this more serious approach is that directors put in longer hours.
And, let me add, it takes a vast amount of reading and research to weave into this story the Cuban experiment, the war in Vietnam, the massacres in Cambodia, the failures in Indonesia, the Great Leap Forward, Deng's reforms, and so much else besides.
