Sentence examples for was a close reader from inspiring English sources

(And Barthelme was a close reader of Freud).

One of his advisers was a close reader of Samuel Huntington's "Political Order in Changing Societies" (1968).

Even in the Army, Mr. Wood was a close reader of the Statistical Abstract of the United States, the Census Bureau's annual tracking of social and economic conditions.

Abraham Lincoln was a close reader of his work, and used to deploy arguments from The Age of Reason in his disputes with religious sectarians, as well as more general Paineite themes in his campaign to turn a bloody civil war into what he called "a second American revolution".

She points out that, whereas neoconservatives talk of clashes between Islam and the West, Strauss was a close reader of medieval Muslim political theory and decried Western intellectuals for their ignorance of the non-Western world: "The Straussians have set themselves to guard the gates Strauss opened".

He is a close reader of the band's "language of dread".

For years, she has been a close reader of the scientific writings of Oliver Sacks, Jonathan Weiner and others.

If you're a close reader of IHT Rendezvous, you're jonesing for a fix of Mark McDonald right about now.

He is a close reader, alive to words and allusions, and steeped in the history and ideas of the period.

If you are a close reader, his point of view is clear, but it is controlled in such a way that you are allowed to disagree with him.

Generally it's the kind of thing a young autodidact would choose -- Ayn Rand, Hemingway, Hesse -- but he's a close reader, and his comments are always astute.