Sentence examples for wide reading of from inspiring English sources

Long residence in this country and wide reading of American autobiographies and historical novels has made Saito an expert in our vagaries.

As it is, Leibniz picks out facts derived from his own observations, from his network of correspondence with other natural philosophers, and from his wide reading of those he regards as trustworthy observers.

Lucid and insistent as usual, it was enriched by his deep and wide reading of philosophy, literary criticism and social anthropology, of Lionel Trilling, Richard Southern and Ernst Troeltsch.

Edith Wharton, née Jones, had been given a usual upper-class Episcopal upbringing, which in her adolescence her inquisitive mind tried to explore through wide reading of sermons and other religious literature.

It was also a mighty lucky day when he signed on with Southern Cultures, selecting (from his wide reading of contemporary poetry, and sometimes from submissions) just the right poem to conclude each issue and its theme.

Indeed, statesmen such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams drew on their wide reading of Milton both to shape their republicanism and to address specific issues such as British taxation in America, the case for ecclesiastical disestablishment in Virginia and the wickedness of British rulers (whose arrogance Adams compared to that of Milton's Satan).

Yet a wider reading of the news bears out what should be a commonplace: Islam has many faces.The unacceptable face of Islam certainly exists.

Like Kuhn's paradigms (on the wider reading of the term) research traditions contain both metaphysical and methodological elements.

Again, a wider reading of the literature on pastoralists of the region would, I think, show the Basseri to be exceptional in all these respects.

However, Heydon J in his dissenting judgement took the earlier line of Murphy J where he called for a wider reading of the implied freedom than was found the Lange test.

Bacon had a very wide reading knowledge of most of the newly translated work from Greek, Jewish, and Islamic Philosophy and Science.