modern reader

collocation in English

meanings of modernand reader

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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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Examples of modern reader

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The main appeal of the correspondence to the modernreader is that it tells the story so well.
However, even a concise synopsis of the basic theory seems, at least to the modernreader, cumbersome if not patently incoherent.
The term enté, by contrast, being medieval, provides no guarantee for a modernreader of clear-cut definition.
The modernreader needs to be alert, prepared for a little investigation of difficulties.
For the modernreader, moreover, there are important omissions.
Their prose style is sometimes difficult for the modernreader to bear.
Yet there is perhaps no aspect of medieval life so alien to a modernreader.
To a modernreader, the obscurities of this ancient text perhaps stand out more than its symbolic value.
To a modernreader some of this language will seem surprising.
The modernreader may well suppose that, for such authors, the notion of a color-geometry was a mere diversion.
This example shows again very clearly the difficulties a modernreader encounters when reading an ancient text.
In many instances these will be places that are familiar to the modernreader.
The modernreader can only feel that her own relation to the museum object is painfully incomplete.
To the modernreader these mysteries are out of place, because, unlike all of the other descriptions, they border on the supernatural.
This may seem incredible to any modernreader unused to such analogical contortions, even if he or she is also acutely aware of the otherness of medieval reading habits.
This approach enables a modernreader, at least to a certain degree, to walk in the shoes of those who created and worked with the sources.
While a modernreader may 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.
We could argue that there should be more analysis and less description; that the modernreader wants more on twentieth-century developments; that cultural history is largely ignored.
There are some familiar inconsistencies here which have survived the test of time remarkably well though the modernreader now pays very much less for such creative skills.
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