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Example sentences for: bookshelf
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Visit the Reagan ranch near Santa Barbara, recently purchased by the Young America's Foundation, and look over Reagan's bookshelf.
Overcome by metaphysical lassitude, I finally reach over to my bookshelf for The Devil's Bible . Turning to Genesis I read: "In the beginning there was nothing.
A quick glance at my bookshelf tells that story: Alienation and Freedom , Class and Conformity , The Hidden Injuries of Class (brilliant, still), The Organization Man , The Lonely Crowd ...
Those readers who have been paying attention know that I have high praise for the Oxford English Dictionary Second Edition on Compact Disc , a CD-ROM edition of the great dictionary that enables users to search the entire text in a matter of seconds-- depending on the complexity of the search and the number of results turned up--far less time than it takes to get up, walk over to the bookshelf, take down a volume, and find what one is seeking.
Knowledge, in the instance of the definitive reference book, becomes entombed and sanctified, very much serving the anti-intellectual ends of the middlebrow, who want not to encounter knowledge and to wrestle with it but to store it as an authority on the bookshelf.