Sentences with phrase «poring over every word»

Banville, who writes crime under the pen name, Benjamin Black, had regularly boasted about how easy he found it to lash out a crime novel, while poring over every word in the literary stuff.

Lawyers will pore over every word, looking for any shortcoming they can exploit.

Those who have been digging for details on all of this for many months will now of course pore over every word in his sprawling account of events.

When you write a love letter, you pore over every word to make sure that it's just right: you pour your thoughts and passions into it, and you work at it until you're 100...

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The fact that Federal Reserve policy statements are pored over by investors was driven home once again when the removal of two words from the prior statement set off an intense debate over the central bank's view of risks to the economy.

The fact that Federal Reserve policy statements are pored over by investors was driven home once again when the removal of two words from the prior...

The writer of any such notes was also aware of himself as author of words which his successors would read; in Luther's case these notes have been reprinted and are now pored over by twentieth - century theologians, as part of the Weimar edition of Luther's Collected Works.

I pored over labels looking for words I couldn't pronounce — occasionally one or two would pop up.

I'm not going to compare its directors, the Duffer Brothers, to Stanley Kubrick, as I'd probably get pipe - bombed as soon as I press save on this Word doc, but the Stranger Things feed frenzy has a strange similarity to the way people used to pore over Kubrick's films — shot by shot, idea by idea, line by line — desperately searching for a secret logic or unseen narrative.

While scholars and advocates can and do pore over less - definitive types of evidence, hundreds of thousands of parents make practical schooling decisions based on information they gather through word of mouth, campus visits, and the rankings available on online platforms such as GreatSchools.

There's something so tempting about getting every word you've written carefully pored over and lovingly polished.

In addition to McCann's obvious talents for language and description, he directly compares the police investigators, poring over hours of video footage of Mendelsohn (from his home security system and cameras in the street), to poets looking for the right word, the perfect rhythm or line.

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.»

Even so, once you have read a few words of her pornographic Arsewoman in Wonderland, you soon get the idea, and no one seems inclined to pore too long (or too publicly) over her closely written accounts of hard - core sex.