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  • He reminds me of my neighbor Daniel, who sight-reads music so fluidly he can't possibly be reading each note; rather, he says, he's composing along with the composer.

    Michael Sigman: This Is Your Brain on Crosswords Michael Sigman 2010

  • He reminds me of my neighbor Daniel, who sight-reads music so fluidly he can't possibly be reading each note; rather, he says, he's composing along with the composer.

    Michael Sigman: This Is Your Brain on Crosswords Michael Sigman 2010

  • He reminds me of my neighbor Daniel, who sight-reads music so fluidly he can't possibly be reading each note; rather, he says, he's composing along with the composer.

    Michael Sigman: This Is Your Brain on Crosswords Michael Sigman 2010

  • He reminds me of my neighbor Daniel, who sight-reads music so fluidly he can't possibly be reading each note; rather, he says, he's composing along with the composer.

    Michael Sigman: This Is Your Brain on Crosswords Michael Sigman 2010

  • He reminds me of my neighbor Daniel, who sight-reads music so fluidly he can't possibly be reading each note; rather, he says, he's composing along with the composer.

    Michael Sigman: This Is Your Brain on Crosswords Michael Sigman 2010

  • He reminds me of my neighbor Daniel, who sight-reads music so fluidly he can't possibly be reading each note; rather, he says, he's composing along with the composer.

    Michael Sigman: This Is Your Brain on Crosswords Michael Sigman 2010

  • On request, she leans over, pears through a glass case and sight-reads Malibran's "La Tarantella."

    Cecilia Bartoli: A Diva and Her Obsession 2007

  • God save you and protect you if you are a pastor who sight-reads Greek and Hebrew and Aramaic, and God save you if you interpret my comment here as somehow casting aspersions on such good and godly men.

    Between Two Worlds 2009

  • "sight-reads" for the violin, she has to stop playing and feel the Braille notes with her left hand.

    None so Blind Haldeman, Joe 1995

  • "sight-reads" for the violin, she has to stop playing and feel the Braille notes with her left hand.

    None So Blind Haldeman, Joe 1994

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