Search Details

Word: rereadability (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...character has vamped the imaginations and intellects of writers from Baudelaire to Woody Allen, whose l971 short story The Kugelmass Episode conjures a contemporary character who can transport himself to Yonville to play a role in Madame Bovary. "The mark of a classic," wrote Allen, "is that you can reread it a thousand times and always find something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Flame the Perpetual Orgy: Flaubert and Madame Bovary by Mario Vargas Llosa | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

Gradually Rutger began to calm down. He took out his airline ticket and reread it approvingly. "Well, my friend, in just 10 hours we'll be in Managua. Mighty fine airline, Capitalist Insurgency Airways...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: Numero Uno | 10/29/1986 | See Source »

...take down rapid-fire testimony faster than a judge can bang a gavel. But until recently he was the only one in the courtroom who could decipher his notes. This resulted in long pauses in the proceedings while he flipped through the pages of his stenographic paper to reread testimony. Days might pass before typed transcripts were available. Now, even as Dagdigian's fingers touch the keys of his stenotype machine in the U.S. Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the unedited transcript, largely in readable English, appears on the screens of three IBM PC XT computers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: The Courtroom of the Future | 8/4/1986 | See Source »

James Hinkle's ordeal began when he ran into a snag while loading a $400 program called Framework into his Kaypro Model 16 computer. He carefully reread the Framework instruction book for guidance but failed to find it. Stymied, the Alameda, Calif., dentist called the service number printed in the manual. The number was busy, but after dialing repeatedly over a period of several hours, Hinkle eventually made the connection--to a recorded message instructing him to call a different number, which was also busy. Says the normally mild-mannered Hinkle: "I started in the morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: The Busy Signal Predicament | 7/14/1986 | See Source »

...words came haltingly, in misshapen clusters. Toad's fingers lunged and jabbed and oversteered. When he paused to reread a sentence, he found that he could not decipher it. The language came out Etruscan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Scribble, Scribble, Eh, Mr. Toad? | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

Previous | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | Next