Sentence examples for Byzantine prose from inspiring English sources
At their best, writers like Mr. Eggers and Ms. Smith combine a mandarin love of ornate, even byzantine prose with the vernacular energy of the streets, tossing together the literary and the colloquial with hyperventilated glee.
The plot of "The Cold Six Thousand" is byzantine and the prose is so hard-boiled you could chip a tooth on it.
C. 1166 Theodore Prodromus, also called Ptochoprodromus (Greek: "Poor Prodromus") (died c. 1166) Byzantine writer, well known for his prose and poetry, some of which is in the vernacular.
The rhythm of his speaking voice, too, remains resolutely earthbound with none of the flights into nuance, arcane language or Byzantine sentence structure for which his prose is rightly admired.
With his fancy prose style, reminiscent of Humbert Humbert, studded with byzantine adjectives like "horrent" and "leporine," Cleave could be mistaken for a word-drunk writer or a garrulous professor.
King's prose, sometimes indulgent, crystallizes whenever he leaves the netherworld; this suggests that his favorite fantasy is not the byzantine cosmology of another world but a skewed version of our own.
The bureaucracy is Byzantine.
Combat-boot prose, footcloth prose.
