Sentence examples for clotted prose from inspiring English sources

The Victorian philosopher Herbert Spencer (1820 1903) also criticized "the labyrinthine complexities" of his peers' clotted prose.

The writing, with its doubling back and repetitions, reflects not only this book's undoubtedly long gestation but also perhaps Wagner's own clotted prose.

Optimism about our culture's future is a lot to ask from a writer who has committed himself for almost 50 years to the reform of cultural evils, like clotted prose, bad taste and poor public education, that have stubbornly refused to be reformed.

Unfortunately, there are not enough of them, and they are almost always conveyed in clotted prose.

Predictably, this leads to some patches of clotted prose: "There was no time.

Every year, the United Nations issues hundreds of solemn documents, written in the clotted prose of international bureaucracy, and they disappear without a trace, while horrors continue unabated.

This section and the next two are clotted with mannered, oracular prose.

At times Cronin's prose is clotted – the history of sport is "a complex narrative of non-lineal changes that were constantly fractured by time and place"- and he can be somewhat preachy.

Or if they do, that's because they tether us to reality: hence his contempt for the "clotted twaddle" of the "cubist prose" in which Gertrude Stein tries to explicate Picasso.

Lebert's prose, deftly translated by the overmatched Carol Brown Janeway, is without the usual juvenile flaws: the clotted syntax, the chronic cliches.

Hair must have been clotted.