Quotes About Examination

Look. It's one of the shortest sentences in the English language. But we don't really look, Chika. Not as adults. We look over. We glance. We move on.

Skimming or pre-reading is the first sublevel of inspectional reading. Your main aim is to discover whether the book requires a more careful reading.

2. WHAT IS BEING SAID IN DETAIL, AND HOW?

The questions answered by inspectional reading are: first, what kind of book is it? second, what is it about as a whole? and third, what is the structural order of the work whereby the author develops his conception or understanding of that general subject matter?

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.

At one point Willum and two strange doctors appeared and proceeded to poke Matt's stomach and take his blood. They untied him so he could pee into a bottle

Gone out to look for a hair to split, I expect.

The ladies looked one another over with microscopic carelessness.

I am called here to answer before you, but I hear no things laid to my charge.

I don't just want to show how somebody might be wrong;I want to know why people believe the things they believe in the first place. I want to understand the mindset that would lead somebody toward the alt-right.

You should use your intelligence and critical mind to carefully examine everything you see or hear.

One mention of birds or flight is an occurrence, two may be a coincidence, but three constitutes a definite trend. And trends, as we know, cry out for examination.

The lad stood before Durbeyfield, and contemplated his length from crown to toe.

Show Dr. Princi your teeth. That's right, let's see 'em all. Christ, Sparks, is that your tongue or are you swallowing a squirrel? Keep moving -

Here, he's resting on the examining table. Pulse seventy-two. Here, he grabs the nurse's head and pulls her down to him. Here, he is subdued by the attendant. He didn't resist, by the way, though the attendant dislocated his shoulder. Do you notice the strange thing? His pulse never got over eighty-five. Even when he tore out her tongue.

He had had to work hard and steadily for his examination, and came home looking rather paler than a man of his blond, rosy type should do. Dr. Heidekind scolded, and insisted on a change of air; a complete change, not a stay at Norderney or Wyk on Föhr—that would not mend matters this time, he said; if they wanted his advice, it was that Hans Castorp should go for a few weeks to the high mountains before he took up his work in the yards.

Suppose we considered the war itself as a laboratory ?

Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?

Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before.

the first things to consider when viewing a painting are the title and subject matter.

He looked like a man on his way to a prostate exam.

Again, I checked my rear.

to both sides before trying the handle; it moved

Most of us are only willing to call 5% of our present information into question any one point.