Sentences with phrase «ordinary reader»

It's hard to talk clearly about investing and make sense to ordinary readers at the same time.

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

I can see how Encountering the Mystery would satisfy the aims of the author, but it wouldn't surprise me if ordinary readers find the encounter still a little too mysterious for their taste.

This gulf between what engineers are actually creating today and what ordinary readers might find believable is significant.

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.

(Coincidentally, I learned later that the letters I'd received after that Washington Post piece were part of a coordinated campaign — and not responses from ordinary readers.)

And then there's the Kindle, which turns the whole world into a bookstore, and which has already been proven to turn ordinary readers in monster book - buyers.

While «Global Warming's Terrifying New Math» was a hit among ordinary readers, it was something of a dud in terms of having a ripple effect in the larger mainstream media.

«It's designed to confuse ordinary readers about who's honoring the lawyers, despite the agate - type disclaimers.»

Imagine Immanuel Kant writing weekly reviews for ordinary readers?

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.

Raymond Martin's book also seems promising because Martin is a philosopher who says he just wants to help the ordinary reader and the ordinary Christian understand the challenge of life - of - Jesus research.

An ordinary reader might think that Martin's argument for openness to supernaturalism is intended to give aid to conservative Christians who reject secular scholarship because, they argue, the believing historian is just as justified in bringing her faith in supernatural intervention to life - of - Jesus research as the secular historian is in rejecting it.

If the real task is to get the ordinary reader of the Bible to think in terms of a historical context, the fine points of such historical controversies may be of limited value.

To get the ordinary reader of the Bible to think about the meaning of the text, attention to the literary context is of particular importance.

It is for us Occidentals a most painful and almost stupefying task, to read only a single Rag, and I doubt if any ordinary reader will have the patience to proceed to the second Rag, after he shall have perused the first.

Without this material, the ordinary reader thinks a gulf, the so - called «400 silent years,» exists between the Testaments.

He details the struggle to find a methodology which respects both the expertise of the trained scripture scholar and the insights of the ordinary reader, who is laboring not just to understand the text but to enflesh it.

It demonstrated to the ordinary reader the extent to which profound dissatisfaction with the traditional image of God in the Christian world was being voiced.

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.

The Digital Reading Network brings together academics, practitioners, stakeholders and ordinary readers to explore the impact of digitisation on readers and reading, with a focus on the reading of literary texts.

In effect, you put yourself in the position of an ordinary reader, except that rather than drifting through the story and being carried along by it passively, you actively watch the various elements of the story to see which things work and which things don't, making notes directly on the page as you go.

The key is to ask them to do some things that ordinary readers would do: Mark things that take them out of the story, pacing issues, emotional feedback, etc. «Beta reading is not about the reader's knowledge of the craft of writing, but about what works and doesn't work for them as a reader,» she states.

Included are details of their personal lives which make the book «readable» to the ordinary reader.

Not against that concept of «ungluing» a book, of course, but against the idea that ordinary readers would be willing to donate money to a publisher to make a book permanently public domain.

Not against that concept of «ungluing» a book, of course, but against the idea that ordinary readers would be willing to donate money to a publisher... [Read more...]

If they can make up their mind from that sample, well then, so can an ordinary reader.

We already mentioned that Amazon has the lion's share of the digital book market, but something that you may not know is that their KY customers are no ordinary readers.

It is critical to consider whether a client's perception of the meaning of the subject words differs from what an ordinary reader would conclude.

«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-.»

The court then addressed the advertising claim and stated that either obvious or circumstantial discrimination would violate the Fair Housing Act, and that the applicable standard was the «ordinary reader» of advertising.

Regarding liability, the Second Circuit found that a plaintiff must show that the ads «suggest to an ordinary reader that a particular race was preferred or dispreferred for the housing in question.»

In this case, the court found that a person who read the ads indicating a racial preference to the ordinary reader has standing to sue.

The court found that an ordinary reader viewing the ads would conclude there was a racial preference.