Sentence examples for brief prose from inspiring English sources

At evening's end Professor Bloom will deliver a brief prose epilogue in the spirit of Shakespeare.

The Yajurveda contains the lines, usually in brief prose, with which the executive priest (adhvaryu) accompanies his ritual activities, addressing the implements he handles and the offering he pours and admonishing other priests to do their invocations.

But the finale instead substitutes a brief prose fragment by the great Swiss poet Gottfried Keller, in which he commends his little soul to the nighttime stars, that it might be borne away as "guiltless as a child".

The richest evidence of their mathematical activity is found in the several 1st-millennium-bce Sulbasutras ("Cord-Rules"), collections of brief prose sentences prescribing techniques for constructing the brick fire altars where the sacrifices were to be carried out.

His next significant book was The Atrocity Exhibition (1970), a collection of the nine so-called condensed novels plus half a dozen brief prose satires (the latter included his most infamous title, "Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan").

If, however, you are as enthralled by these questions as is surely intended, then a brief prose translation, though missing the musical nuance, should suffice: the Jets are adrift following a disappointing season that was memorable mostly for the fact that Tim Tebow was their backup backup quarterback.

The undercurrent of violence evident in this long-poem's brief, prose-like sections is as stark in those with mother-as-speaker as in those governed by a daughter's perspective.

Employed in public libraries, he used filing cards to write brief, cryptic prose poems full of overheard speech and scraps of experience.

Samuel Beckett's brief 1969 prose poem, known as the more elegant Sans in its original French, is staged with a haunting simplicity as part of the Barbican's International Beckett season.

His arrangement gives readers a visual sense of the historical development of these diagrams and shows how, in Darwin's words, "from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved". Pietsch's brief, accessible prose accompanies the diverse trees to fully reveal the engrossing history of human theories of evolution.

Arriving in the late 1970s and early 80s, they were taut, forbidding puzzles of logic and language; proceeding the age of graphics on home computers, they made the most of constraints, using brief, carefully chosen prose and a limited list of terse commands to create the experience.