Sentence examples for clever prose from inspiring English sources

Jagger's transgressions had become the stuff of Greek tragedy within an hour, without the metaphor and clever prose.

It is, like the rest of her work, the writing of someone with a fine ear for conversation and a gift for deceptively clever prose.

Since all the characters in "The Bone Clocks" — even the Anchorites and the Horologists, alas — speak to one another with the same matey, Christmas-cracker jokiness, the effect is that of a novel without internal borders, everyone churning up the same bright, clever prose, the tone poised somewhere between Richard Curtis and Eddie Izzard.

This is a sleek series, with clever prose that runs at a clip, from scenes in spy agencies to bars to action on the wintry streets of Prague.

Rating, out of ten: 7. Clark's debut loses steam as it nears the conclusion, but his smart, clever prose and the thoughtful, terrifying questions he raises about how Americans eat now make the full read worth savoring.

I found myself, time and time again, going back to check my own memory of the events chronicled in Vansittart's clever, stylish prose, and finding aspects of them that I had forgotten.

It's those "other hassles" — family obligations, romantic love and self-fulfillment — that come through most convincingly, and memorably, in Burroway's clever and compassionate prose.

Like dandies in 1910 we watch soundless videos on Facebook captioned with clever and breathless prose and accompanied by wild music.

With clear prose and some clever math, Judge Robart concluded that when a company has made a RAND commitment to an industry standards organization, the price should be low.

That's the very quality -- along with Grodstein's agile prose and clever observations -- that makes her stand out.

Later he abandoned naturalism and wrote highly personal impressionistic prose and clever, somewhat overwrought "prose-verses". A sensitive artist with great powers of observation and a keen eye for detail, he was a powerful influence on Dutch literature, as both an original and a critical writer, for many years.