Word: rereadability
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Garrison adds, "At first I was worried that other people wouldn't take my topic seriously. I was getting desperate in my search for a subject and I got the idea when I reread an article on 11th and 12th century fashion changes. A few days later, I was inspired to actually write about beards after I heard a lecture by a Princeton historian...
...personality" in the hopes of somehow catching him "off-guard," but, in the senses, rather, of a self-reading, a reading of the body of one's own writings, the writing of one's own body. "Do you need your books? What I mean is, do you reread them?" R.B.: "Never, I'm too afraid...
...five-hour summation to the jury on Thursday, Barr told the jurors to reread the disputed paragraph and ask themselves if it fit the judge's test * of defamation. "Look at the words again," Barr said. "Do the words say that? Do the words mean that to you?" If not, he said, "that's it. The case is over." Barr reminded the jurors of the testimony of TIME Senior Writer William E. Smith, who wrote the cover story. If Smith had meant to convey that Sharon consciously intended or encouraged a massacre, Barr argued, "he would have said...
...difficult to understand how marking up library books helps these people study. Reserve books, after all, circulate overnight at the longest. I guess they mark up a book and then reread the sentences that glow in the dark. Or perhaps it is common practice to ask for the copy they have marked up next time they check the book out. I saw someone do this once, the person behind the desk handed it to him without blinking...
...best way to communicate anything more serious than a grocery order. For one thing, it enables the writer to devote a little thought to what to say and how to say it, rather than babbling the first words that come to mind. For another, it enables him to reread what has been said to him, to make corrections in his own answer, or to throw it away and start again. And finally, it provides him a copy of what was agreed or not agreed a month earlier. All the telephoner has is his illegally recorded tape, most of which consists...