Sentences with phrase «pencil in hand»

Readers should not have to read your book with a red pencil in their hands.

For one, I have this vision of robots sitting at desks, red pencils in hand, editing.

We see hesitant writers sit with pencils in their hands and paper on their desks, almost as if they've been handicapped by the task we have set for them.

«Many of us grew up believing that the best place to do homework was alone in a quiet room at a tidy desk, sharpened pencils in hand.

However, one student looked blankly at his paper, broken pencil in hand.

It was like he had a pencil in his hand and was jabbing it into my rib cage.

I believe that many who find that «nothing happens» when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hands.

one girl shouted out while looking at me expectantly, pencil in hand, ready to write on a worksheet dog - eared on the top corners.

Calling long distance from Denver to Kankakee with my pencil in hand - I was ready!

Sharpened number 2 pencils in hand, two to be exact, a good breakfast and out the door and off to school for a full day of testing.Oh, how I dreaded those days.Although I cringed the days of testing, the apprehension was higher when the results were in.

«When my baby fell asleep for nap or bedtime, I'd rewind my day with a pencil in my hand to recreate the emotion fresh and raw.

We are all pencils in the hand of the Creator», Okorocha said.

However, getting familiar with the type of questions used in psychometric testing can indeed make you more comfortable when you are suddenly thrust into the process, pencil in hand.

She could have held 2 pencils in each hand and gotten the same effect.

She grew up with a sketch pad and pencil in hand, on a small island off the coast of Georgia.

I love the world of illustration and design since the first time I put a pencil in my hands.

And as always, encourage students to read with a pen or pencil in hand.

Kids peered over their notebooks, pencil in hand, at a PowerPoint presentation.

Pencils in hand, the third - and fourth - grade students followed along with the recorded voice.

The students have pencils in hand, outlines spread around them, and a...

The students are seated, pencils in hand, some tracing Z's on a work sheet and others daydreaming while their teacher describes the steps required to form the letter.

I love this idea because it encourages active reading... I am certainly guilty of skimming over a word I've never seen before and figuring out the basic meaning through context clues — but Wondrous Words Wednesday gives me a great reason to read with a pencil in hand.

Even with techy options like phones and tablets, many authors still prefer the feel of a pen or pencil in their hands, and the familiar surface of a fresh notebook page.

Sabine is a budding poet who was practically born with a pencil in her hand.

At 640 pages, it is a brick of a book, and my advice for you is to read with a pencil in hand, because you will want to remember sections of Hamann's rich prose as she chronicles the life of Eveline Auerbach through high school and college.

And so, pencil in hand, he went out to listen.

I've never had more fun with a pencil in my hand than while editing his supple, swinging sentences, and I've always felt that no other American novelist explores questions of race and identity with a fresher eye and a deeper penetration.»

You no longer have to gather statements with a calculator, paper, and pencil in hand.

MS: Traylor may have been painting long before Charles Shannon [a young, native Montgomery artist] observed him with a pencil in hand in the spring of 1939.

Rufus, in waistcoat and tie, notebook and pencil in hand, gives Hockney a serious painted stare.

In a question about whether or not Devlin can think without a pencil in her hand, she outlines the work she is creating for Photo London and states that it is a follow up to another work she has made called Mirror Maze.

These weird and wonderful sketches of the human body reveal just what is possible when, pencil in hand, the artist lets their subconscious off the leash.

Whitman was born in San Diego and grew up with a pencil in her hand.

If you were at Wave Hill last Sunday, you would have seen this eclectic group, drawing board at the ready; pencils in hand, taking in the breathtaking vista of the Hudson River through the delicate branches of the emerging deciduous woodland.

That I am given pause as I sit with book and pencil in hand (before turning to work on the computer) is worth a moment's reflection on what is changing and what is no less before us.

Art has taken her over since her Mother gave a pencil in her hand.