Sentence examples for described prose from inspiring English sources

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But he made it clear he wasn't backing down on another allegation, made in a letter to PEN earlier this week, in which he described Prose and the five other authors to have withdrawn as "the fellow travellers" of "fanatical Islam, which is highly organised, well funded, and which seeks to terrify us all, Muslims as well as non-Muslims, into a cowed silence".

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In his New York Times review Frank Rich described the prose as "pedagogical".

She described his prose as an "an elevated colloquial American English".

New York and her home town, Santiago, are described in prose that blends sensation with memory, fury with fear.

A British translator of the Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk once described his prose as a "trance," evidently deriving this compliment from the swirling dervishes of Istanbul's tourist lanes.

A fine example is the Daśakumāracarita ("Tales of Ten Princes"), by Daṇḍin (6th/7th century), in which, within the framework of a boxing story, the picaresque adventures of 10 disinherited princes are described in prose.

Since the fall of the Venetian republic in 1797, the city has held an unrivaled place in the Western imagination and has been endlessly described in prose and verse.

The great critic and poet William Empson once described the prose used in exhibition catalogues as "a steady iron-hard jet of absolutely total nonsense, as if under great pressure from a hose".

The Wall Street Journal on the other hand, described this prose style as "flat and fizzless".

"Completely practical and always precise" is how she describes her prose.

The therapy (also covered by Atul Gawande in this magazine) is singularly simple to execute but devilishly difficult to describe in prose (as I discovered when writing that section of the story).

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