Still, the reader can easily overlook these writerly excesses, so powerful is the author's channeling of his people's memories.

Such a preposterous and seemingly ridiculous notion is asserted at the story's beginning so that the reader carelessly overlooks it, only to re-examine one's own reaction later.

Unforgiveably underrated, unbelievably overlooked reader.

Though Ms. Harrison's orchestration of these people's intersecting lives is clumsily stage-managed, her evocation of May's life is persuasive enough to make the reader overlook such missteps.

Both novels have been incorporated with aspects of science fiction that typical readers would overlook.

The reader can overlook such silly asides because of the overall intelligence of this book and Mr. Wilson's own passion in dissecting the decline in religious faith.

Unwary readers may overlook the comic element in his work.

Hayes had contractual grounds for refusing to print this; instead he had Esquire's fiction editor, Rust Hills, obsfucate the prose so that readers might overlook what was going on.

As a result of this deliberate lack of focus, most readers will undoubtedly overlook the author's iconoclastic view.