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Over the past 17 years, he's written 11 novels — we'll turn to the 12th in a moment — as remarkable for their precise, economical language and depth of characterization as for the fact that each is as different from its predecessor, in style, tone and narrative approach, as if it had come from a different author.
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It's quite an economical lyric.
Be economical with your language: every word has to be doing something.
julian6 has finished Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Weep Not, Child: Very fine and economical use of language and evoked the central character's turmoil superbly – his hesitant steps towards understanding the African predicament during the colonial period, his sense of family and his place within that unit versus his growing need for love and new experiences beyond his very enclosed world.
Wilde continually revised the text over the next months: no line was left untouched, and "in a play so economical with its language and effects, [the revisions] had serious consequences".
Be economical with words: use important words.
Mr. Sakate's language is economical, poignant.
Rewarding concision first will encourage students to be economical and innovative with language.
But I fear that our kids, for whom certain skills are already rewarded in preschool, may become a generation of students that finds it difficult "to be economical and innovative with language".
A past winner of the Whitbread and the Guardian children's fiction prize, McKay plays to her strengths in this nourishing and tremendously entertaining novel: she uses a small canvas and observes closely; her voice is warm, wise and witty; her language is economical and precise.
(Sidebar: "Louie" is more visually confident every year; so much this season is said poignantly -- or hilariously -- without words. I very much hope C.K. makes a movie someday; he's got such a terrific grasp of visual language and economical dialogue that a career as a film director seems like a natural progression).
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