be read
Synonyms
Examples
Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
If the secret sorrows of everyone could be read on their forehead, how many who now cause envy would suddenly become the objects of pity.
The noblemen's quarrels can be read on the backs of the peasants.
A letter from the heart can be read on the face.