Sentence examples for work at the text from inspiring English sources

Antunes makes the reader work at the text, a hard but pleasurable business, and Rabassa actually makes things more difficult.

Home at Vitalie's farm, a chastened Rimbaud spent the summer of 1873 hard at work on the text he'd begun earlier that year.

From his years at Cambridge comes the first evidence since 1505 that he was at work on the text of the New Testament.

It isn't science fiction – indeed its procedures are the very reverse of generic, for there is no analogy at work in the text, which instead labours to produce its iterative naturalism as a kind of sub-set or derivation of our own.

The romantic elements of the work would have hinted at the text's radical politics to nineteenth-century readers.

He worked on the text at Paris and completed the edition of this text with introduction and notes at Oxford after his return there from Paris c. 1280.

When you practice reading, and you work at a text, it can only give you what you put into it.

Zadie Smith (where are her books on this list?) said: "When you practise reading, and you work at a text, it can only give you what you put into it.

When you're with your kids stop the texting, leave work at the office, turn off Sports Center.

"Maybe what's not working is the text," Mr. Lubin-Levy aptly says at another point.

Turning it into a visual work is a different way to look at the text again".