modern reader
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmodernandreader
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modern
adjective
uk/ˈmɒd.ən/us/ˈmɑː.dɚn/
designed and made using the most recent ideas ...
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reader
noun[C]
uk/ˈriː.dər/us/ˈriː.dɚ/
someone who reads for pleasure, especially a person who reads ...
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(Definition ofmodernandreaderfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofmodern reader
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The main appeal of the correspondence to themodernreaderis that it tells the story so well.
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However, even a concise synopsis of the basic theory seems, at least to themodernreader, cumbersome if not patently incoherent.
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The term enté, by contrast, being medieval, provides no guarantee for amodernreaderof clear-cut definition.
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Themodernreaderneeds to be alert, prepared for a little investigation of difficulties.
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For themodernreader, moreover, there are important omissions.
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Their prose style is sometimes difficult for themodernreaderto bear.
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Yet there is perhaps no aspect of medieval life so alien to amodernreader.
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To amodernreader, the obscurities of this ancient text perhaps stand out more than its symbolic value.
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To amodernreadersome of this language will seem surprising.
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Themodernreadermay well suppose that, for such authors, the notion of a color-geometry was a mere diversion.
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This example shows again very clearly the difficulties amodernreaderencounters when reading an ancient text.
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In many instances these will be places that are familiar to themodernreader.
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Themodernreadercan only feel that her own relation to the museum object is painfully incomplete.
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To themodernreaderthese mysteries are out of place, because, unlike all of the other descriptions, they border on the supernatural.
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This may seem incredible to anymodernreaderunused to such analogical contortions, even if he or she is also acutely aware of the otherness of medieval reading habits.
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This approach enables amodernreader, at least to a certain degree, to walk in the shoes of those who created and worked with the sources.
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While amodernreadermay interpret the architecture of the biblical cosmos in a purely symbolic way, it is very doubtful that the original authors and early readers did so.
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We could argue that there should be more analysis and less description; that themodernreaderwants more on twentieth-century developments; that cultural history is largely ignored.
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There are some familiar inconsistencies here which have survived the test of time remarkably well though themodernreadernow pays very much less for such creative skills.
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