Sentences with phrase «poring over books»

Design analysis with the client is next: that entails poring over books, magazines, tear sheets, samples and sites such as Pinterest to get a really good idea of what they're drawn to, whether it's a colour or design period.

He started poring over books by environmentalists and the epiphany rang: He would devote his fortune to nature.

Poring over these books, the viewer is put in intimate proximity to the tangible, visible, and meditative qualities of Walsh's work.

I have also done a lot of research on contracts and legalities, attending the Rights workshop at the London Book Fair as well as poring over books on contract clauses.

In my early career as a school principal, I used to spend hours poring over books and resources that I thought would support me to be a better speaker.

To understand Noah, and to give his character a story arc, Aronofsky and his co-writer, Ari Handel, spent 10 years poring over the Book of Genesis and the midrash — stories written by rabbis to fill out the Bible's narratives.

While poring over a book on neurotransmitters, she looked at the structure of serotonin and decided it would make a pretty necklace.

For the last 2 and a half years, he has pored over books in attic of Chicago's Adler Planetarium and tracked down telescopes in museum catalogs from galleries around the world.

After Christie announced his budget plans, panicked city leaders got together, pored over their books and collective - bargaining agreements, and realized the unthinkable was about to happen.

I'm still poring over the book, making every detail as good as I can possibly make it.

As a young child, he pored over books and was intrigued by their authors and illustrators.

Do you want to pore over books in the library?

No, we didn't sit down and have coffee as we pored over my book, but we did e-mail just about daily about everything from chapter headers to fonts to white space.

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Harvard Business School professor Teresa Amabile and psychologist Steven Kramer, authors of the incisive The Progress Principle, pored over 12,000 daily work diary entries and were surprised to find out that making progress — even small wins — on meaningful work is the most powerful motivator,» reports the book.

In twenty years of university teaching, poring over footnotes in journals devoted to the study of footnotes, attending conferences in which small increments of knowledge are swamped by large swathes of ignorance, and reading unimportant books about the important books that I haven't had time to read, I retained a longing for the ideal of the collegiate life.

After a quick lunch in the school cafeteria, I would head over to the library for thirty minutes before class to pore over the school library's set of Great Books of the Western World.

I've only just begun to pore over the delights in your book and it's tricky to say which I'm enjoying more — the writing, recipes or gorgeous pix.

Congratulations on your new book; I have been poring over it this weekend; it is a good read and I know the recipes are outstanding.

The book store has gone the way of the dodo and the my copy of Olives & Oranges was donated long ago, but I still have fond memories of procrastinating homework to pore over recipes, making lists of how I should stock my humble pantry, and dog - earing just about every other page or so for recipes to try on my own or to make for Cory when we moved in together.

You could spend countless hours poring over recipe books and perform endless searches on the web for sausage recipes, but a container of one of our sausage seasoning blends or jerky seasoning blends are all you really need.

More often than not Corbett receives his inspiration while poring over sports pages and record books with 14 - year - old Brad Jr..

«I spent hundreds of hours in the prison library, poring over law books, trying to find cases that might have a bearing on mine,» he says.

In the past, people flipped through old phone books, explored overgrown churchyards, and pored over immigration records and birth certificates to build their family trees.

eBooks In Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomy, an interactive book for the iPad, readers can learn about the artist's medical explorations, pore over his lavish and precise anatomical sketches, and compare them with modern models of the body.

A Monopoly set may exasperate a child who can't pore over the instructions, and even Leggos could frustrate some who can't sit still, says Stephanie Oppenheim, the co-founder of Oppenheim Toy Portfolio, which gives out awards to toys and books.

Or have you forgotten your night vigils, when you were poring over numerous books and notes?

I stumbled over many unorthodox health «secrets» after more than 26 years of poring through all the traditional health books of advice.

I read the books and the articles and I pore over my profile and have people read it.

Odd, too, to hear him pore over the themes in Williams's work, since he goes on for pages in his Hitchcock book about the fallacy of auteurism.

You can add books you've already pored over to your «already read» library, and you can give them a rating and a review for others to see.

Learned, a veteran in school finance who came out of retirement to take the job, pored over the district's books and came to a quick conclusion: «My thought was, boy, I sure liked retirement,» he said.

I'd pored over car magazines and books for years, but from Williams to 197, via cute 172 and madcap V6, I was always left cold.

After spending a year writing the book, poring over every sentence, pondering the implication of every turn of phrase, I was amazed to discover a new rhythm and new levels of meaning in my own work.

You can't have too many eyes looking at a book and yes, small presses will do editing, but I would also have a friend or three pore over the manuscript looking for typos.

With complementary charts on topics ranging from IQ to suicide rates to penis size, this is a book to be obsessively pored over with a magnifying glass.

We've pored over galleys to come up with 14 women writers whose ambitious debuts — or accomplished breakthrough books — are sure to make waves among book lovers this spring and summer.

Foundling, the first in the planned Monster Blood Tattoo trilogy, sucked our then twelve - year - old son in on the first page and spat him back out a couple of days later only after he'd read the book cover to cover (including the glossary and the 100 page appendix which particularly fascinated him) and pored over the maps and illustrations In the intervening period we did see him from time to time - for meals and breathless plot updates - but in essence, although his body was with us, his mind was somewhere in the Half - Continent!

This month, he selects some of the best books to give to family and friends this holiday season.Travel often begins in an armchair — sitting back and poring over atlases, photo books and travelogues of journeys past and present.

Replete with jaunty, sometimes - silly cartoon - style illustrations, this is a book kids will pore over.

I've published three novels now, and pored over every review in every periodical and blog, compulsively checked my Amazon reviews and rankings, scrutinized my royalty statements, and done endless marketing and PR for my books, including once driving 1400 miles in seven days to visit 28 indie book stores.

That makes sense to me: After just a few hours on the course with him, I feel as if I've attended a seminar more valuable than all of the design books I've pored over.

I can pore over a guide book for just about anywhere, reading it from cover to cover and back again, looking for tidbits I'd missed or learning about the history and culture of a new place.

Ryan and Brittany had been planning their dream home for years, poring over design magazines and plan books and talking about a built - in breakfast nook and walk - in closets.

Before booking, I pore over guidebooks and travel forums to build an itinerary and select flight destinations.

As visitors to his full - dress, full - floor Whitney retrospective will perceive from the moment they get off the elevator and are confronted by the mural - length 1999 painting Das Erdbeben in Chili [M # 3], the 79 - year - old artist has evolved to embrace riotous colors, unwieldy materials, and explosive forms in his recent work — even as younger artists with an interest in abstraction obsess over the rigorous formalism of his early years and pore over the compositional strategies in his 1986 book Working Space.

Their titles are based on a text piece she did in 2003, when she pored over the index of the book «Reading Lyrics» and marked all the titles that had the word «blue.»

«As someone who enjoys improv quilting, I found myself poring over Sherri's book day after day, quickly jotting down notes and techniques to try with my next project.»

Consider Kehinde Wiley and the model in the studio, poring over art history books together to choose an image that will serve as the source for a new painting, in which the model will replace some long - departed exemplar of European privilege and power.

== > «Only religious people take up a statement written in a book, freeze it (as though it were something immutable), and study it and pore over it (instead of the concept / question behind it).»

I would save and save, then spend an hour poring over the cookbook section at Chapters in Toronto, trying to determine which book was most worthy of my hard - earned funds.