Sentence examples for astute prose from inspiring English sources

Becoming an instant success with the publication of her inaugural novel, (2000), Zadie Smith has continued to earn the praise of readers and critics for her perceptive renderings of unique characters described through her witty and astute prose.

The American films were Savages (1972) with its mixture of colour, sepia and monochrome, The Wild Party (1975), set in 20s Hollywood, and The Bostonians (1984), based on Henry James, which, according to the New York Times critic had "a sunny, rapturous look that could no more be mistaken for ordinary romanticism than could Mr James's astute, decorous prose".

Wineapple is an astute literary biographer with a feisty prose style and a relish for unsettling received ideas.

Ms. Atwood is a witty and astute writer of broad sympathy and wide-ranging curiosity, and the prose of the book, at once commonsensical and counterintuitive, bristles with insight and implication.

His comments on my prose and on the psychology of characters — his particular specialties — were unfailingly astute.

But Collins's pared-down prose at its best can feel fresher, more seductive, and more psychologically astute than Dickens's endless periods — and in many ways more modern.

And the thrill of discovery is not just in seeing the 1960s represented through a dark mirror, but in the prose style: long, breathless sentences that chart an inner turmoil combined with an astute eye for the times and what those times might mean.

Authoritative, astute, encyclopaedic in his knowledge and rigorous in his assessments, Schiff rendered complicated concepts in clear, accessible prose.

Brems proved an astute and skeptical chronicler of contemporary literature in general, Bousset championed postmodernist fragmentation and formal experimentation in prose fiction, and de Coninck became the most eloquent advocate of the muted, accessible, and ironic poetry of Neorealist vintage.

Astute move?

Francine Prose.