Sentence examples for aggressive prose from inspiring English sources

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He backs this up with a self-consciously aggressive prose style -- Gatien's wife is described as "the proverbial tough cookie laced with arsenic"; a club in Staten Island is "cementhead central".

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In "[sic]" (W.W. Norton, $25), the young classical composer Joshua Cody outstrips the weepy conventions of a cancer memoir by mixing aggressive, intelligent prose with shocking confessions, like the time he had cocaine-fueled sex with a stranger after chemotherapy.

"The style is a trifle primitive," one observer wrote about Anderson's prose, "gauche, aggressive, maudlin... it speaks in pungent slang".

An aggressive radical steeped in loyalty and tradition, Kielland was perhaps the foremost Norwegian prose stylist of his day.

Francine Prose.

Documentary prose?

Prose endures.

Combat-boot prose, footcloth prose.

The prose is disappointing.

His prose can crackle.

Her prose was wooden.

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