What you feel, watching Close, is not that you are watching gender being bent into new, absorbing shapes but that you might as well have stayed home and leafed through a book on Magritte.
NEWYORKER: Material Girls
They could read every leadership book, but their insecurities would prevent them from absorbing some lessons.
FORBES: 12 Signs of Cowardly Leadership
The letters surrounding the ensuing controversy, which eventually led to Toscanini's permanent departure from Italy, form the most absorbing section of the main part of the book.
ECONOMIST: Musical lives
The first third of the book gives an absorbing account of the making of an economist.
ECONOMIST: Milton Friedman
Shlaes also tells the absorbing story of the fight between Wendell Willkie--the true hero of this book--and David Lilienthal.
FORBES: Fact and Comment
Mingus wrote in her absorbing book, "Tonight at Noon: A Love Story, " that I reread when I need to be lifted by both of them, Mingus used to holler to his musicians "Play yourself!"
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Its capital position must remain strong: capable of at least maintaining its lending book, absorbing shocks, and commanding enough confidence to allow borrowing without state guarantees.
ECONOMIST: American banks
His book is the definitive treatment of the subject, and an absorbing read for anybody with an appetite for moderate intellectual exertion.
ECONOMIST: Economics focus
As an introduction to the controversies surrounding Richard III, the book is second-to-none - and as a novel, it is absorbing, engaging, and utterly compelling, sweeping up each new reader in its argument.
BBC: King Richard III
When you read a book, all of your attention is focused on the story—the rest of the world just falls away, and you can immerse yourself in every fine detail you're absorbing.
看书的时候,所有的注意力都集中在故事上——周围的一切似乎都不存在了,你可以尽情的沉浸在任一细节里。
This book, the detective robin "biography" and "look" two main line on story exciting, touching; Should the eerie singularity, breathtaking, often it"s a wrench to comfort absorbing read.
本书以亚森·罗宾的“神探”和“侠盗”两条主线展开的故事扣人心弦,感人肺腑;其情节诡异奇异,惊险安慰,经常令人不忍释卷。
The book is an absorbing read, but not a comfortable one.
这本书很引人入胜,但读起来并不轻松。
One of the most effective means of absorbing knowledge from a book is to make intelligent notes in the margins.
从书中汲取知识的最有效的方法之一,是在页边空白处作有见地的笔记。
One of the most effective means of absorbing knowledge from a book is to make intelligent motes in the margins.
从书中汲取知识的最有并行办法之一,是在页边空白处作有见地的笔记。
Mr Cercas has written a persuasive, brilliant and absorbing book that has more contemporary resonance than even he might have imagined.
赛卡斯的这本书写得颇具说服力、才华横溢且引人入胜,甚至比他原本所想象的更引起当代人的共鸣。
Its capital position must remain strong: capable of at least maintaining its lending book, absorbing shocks, and commanding enough confidence to allow borrowing without state guarantees.
那便是它的资本状况务必尚需雄厚:至少有能力维持放贷、缓解冲击及有足够的信心无需国家担保获得借款。
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