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They are decent writers, who can give a fair encapsulation of a work and detail their responses.
smallwasfast wasn't alone in arguing that Elton's downfall wasn't Twitter's fault, but his own: The message [is] quite simple – BBC, get some decent writers and stop effing about with people whose reputations have far outgrown their talent: Elton ceased to be funny – if he ever was – in about 1988.
The American and British governments decided, as part of a propaganda effort, to get some decent writers and cultural figures on to the scene; writers for the most part were keen to get out there and see for themselves, though Ernest Hemingway was reluctant and Evelyn Waugh initially sceptical.
But I note that Nordlinger's reviews run primarily in the rabid-right New York Sun, so far gone that it insinuates its political positions right into its news stories, just like the tabloid Post (although the Post has at least a few decent writers; the Sun news crew are just politically correct amateurs).
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Let me go on the record with something: I went to a pretty good undergraduate university, graduated in the top ten percent of my law school class (and was the editor of the school's entertainment and sports law review), and am a decent enough writer that the good folks at Huffingtonpost.com allow me to blog, and yet I don't want someone "just like me" to be president.
She's honest, real and a decent writer.
That's what I needed to keep myself occupied and also learned that I was a decent writer and actor.
Again, one has the sense of a decent writer being intimidated by a thankless commission.
"I would like to be remembered as a pretty decent writer".
Anyone can tell a joke, more or less, so any decent writer can produce a funny scene.
"I'd like to believe people are reading my stuff because I'm a decent writer, not because it says I'm a cop," he said.
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