Example sentences for: saenger

How can you use “saenger” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Specialists will no doubt be arguing over Saenger's thesis for years to come--don't let your subscription to Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies lapse.

  • Some future Paul Saenger, perhaps in a book to be called When Hands Left the Keyboard , will, I hope, be able to tell the story of one more happy accident.

  • Saenger observes in Space Between Words: The Origins of Silent Reading that most ancient texts virtually demanded to be read aloud, because the words were written in what is known as scriptura continua --that is, they were all run together, forcingthereadertosoundeverythingout.

  • The majority view today is that reading aloud was the rule in antiquity--a view that has now received powerful new support from Paul Saenger, a medievalist and curator at the Newberry Library in Chicago.


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