Sentences with phrase «by ordinary readers»

How To Get Honest Book Reviews Readers trust book reviews because they are generally written by ordinary readers like themselves.

This is not simply because its daunting length and complexity resist entry by ordinary readers, but because Jewett's relentless application of current preoccupations flattens one of the world's most powerful religious writings to the level of the banal and reveals how little theological passion and insight are to be found among contemporary New Testament interpreters.

Not exact matches

Readers of Solzhenitsyn's «Repentance and Self - Limitation in the Life of Nations,» which dared to defend as essentially correct the common feature of ordinary speech that depicts nations as capable of guilt, repentance, and a «spiritual life,» will understand why, as will viewers moved by Nelson's Mandela core message in the film Invictus.

This is no ordinary argument for the existence of God, though it could easily enough be taken as such by some readers, especially because of its unabashed references to the God of Abraham and Moses and its well - placed quotations from the Hebrew Scriptures.

Some are happily accepted by consumers of women's magazines, though derided by critics; others are often given a pretentious worthiness by the literary establishment which makes them unappealing to the ordinary reader.

Written by Columbia University Professor, Clemence Boulouque, this resource provides diary entries, letters, memoirs, and documents that bring readers into the lives of ordinary French people - both Jews and non-Jews - under the Nazi occupation.

Currently Looking For: Fiction that hits the sweet spot between commercial and literary with interesting settings and a strong narrative voice; mystery (particularly cozies and crossover literary — think Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger), literary thriller, and psychological suspense; and memoir by writers who connect the events of their lives to readers through incredible storytelling, as well as a wide variety of prescriptive and narrative nonfiction and gift books.

Without insulting the reader by offering pat or easy answers — because there aren't any — HTF tells stories of ordinary Christians following hard after Christ in a world of violence, upside - down morality, and hostility to Judeo - Christian values.

The establishment of the E Ink Corporation in 1997 led to the development of electronic paper, a technology which allows a display screen to reflect light like ordinary paper without the need for a backlight; electronic paper was incorporated first into the Sony Librie (released in 2004) and Sony Reader (2006), followed by the Amazon Kindle, a device which, upon its release in 2007, sold out within five hours.

Scientists work by text and have a lot more buffering against emotional meltdown than ordinary readers like those of us here, trying to understand the science.

[A publication] may be defamatory in its plain and ordinary meaning or by virtue of extrinsic facts or circumstances, known to the listener or reader, which give it a defamatory meaning by way of innuendo different from that in which it ordinarily would be understood.

The principles barriers to the intelligibility of a particular law are, in my view, are excessively involuted sentence structure, the use of language other than in its plain or ordinary sense, and recursive drafting techniques that require the reader to interpret one section by reference to another.

«It has long been settled that the interpretation of a document is a matter of law for the court, save in those cases where there is some ground for thinking that the words were used by the writer — and understood by the reader — in a special sense different from their ordinary meaning.»

The courts should attempt to look at ministerial policy through the minister's eyes as at the time when he has articulated it, by reference to the ordinary and natural meaning of the words, rather than through the eyes of a notional reasonable reader.

«Viewing the NLC policy in its entirety, and affording the words at issue their plain and ordinary meaning in the way that would be understood by «the ordinary reader and purchaser,» we conclude that the «owned but not insured» exclusion applicable in this case is not ambiguous.Town of Cumberland, 860 A. 2d at 1215 (quoting Pressman v. Aetna Casualty and Surety Co., 574 A. 2d 757, 760 (R.I. 1990)-RRB-.»

Para. 17.325 refers readers to the ordinary Canadian legal stylebooks, adding «All should be referred to by writers or editors of specialized works in Canadian history and law.»