Sentence examples for weak books from inspiring English sources

But his weak books seem just the gases emitted by a natural and overwhelming energy.

Among the artistic rationales for major revisals are fixing weak books or dealing with dated — even off-putting — material, like the ethnic stereotyping in "Flower Drum Song" (heavily revised for a short-lived return to Broadway in 2002).

Other major publishers are complaining of weak book sales -- Random House recently announced layoffs -- but Penguin Putnam's sales rose from last year, Mr. Shanks said.

Last month the company introduced an enhanced version of its Nook e-reader, spending heavily to develop the device and compete with rivals like Amazon.com and Apple, betting that e-book sales can grow quickly enough to make up for weak book sales.

A few expressed relief that Muriel Spark's many fans hadn't voted for one of her weaker books as a matter of misguided faith.

The merits of Peck's reviewing style — passion, wit, and contrarian zeal — are usually outweighed by its defects: endless, baffling plot synopses, a questionable grasp of literary history, and a tendency to use authors' weaker books to damn their entire outputs.

According to Cox, "Hornung's work showed steady maturation" during his career, a point that Doyle also agreed with, although Edwards disagrees, and thinks The Crime Doctor to be one of Hornung's weaker books.

The ersatz urgency of those short tabloid sentences seems imported from a smaller, weaker book.

A subsequent, still weaker book collected brief plain poems of anecdotal reminiscence.

His second and weakest book came out during World War II and was little noticed.

Yet none of this necessarily suggests Mayakovsky's Revolver is a weaker book of poems for all its darkness.