Sentence examples for descriptive prose from inspiring English sources

I'm not big on descriptive prose.

Clark's descriptive prose contains some startling metaphors.

His signal accomplishment here is to breathe ineffably theatrical life into Dickens's narrative and descriptive prose.

Blume said that though she's good at writing characters and dialogue, she "can't write descriptive prose.

The work also inspired some of Goethe's finest pages of descriptive prose.

I don't know what Pepys's reaction would have been: probably wide-eyed wonderment, breathlessly descriptive prose".

And Hemingway's notes to himself from Cuba show a parallel artistic imperative: the search for blunt, descriptive, concise prose.

This is mostly a good thing, though your level of appreciation may vary in accordance with your tolerance of floridly descriptive curd-driven prose.

He wrote a variety of other poems, as well as descriptive pieces in prose (some on works of art), and a number of orations, including an address to Manuel I and a funeral eulogy of Nicephorus Comnenus.

Folklorists usually employ descriptive and analytical prose, but they, like scholars in other social sciences, have increasingly sought new, creative and reflexive modes of discourse.

It should be noted that this descriptive style of prose is positioned in direct opposition to the minimalism favored by many Moderns such as Bret Easton Ellis and Raymond Carver, and their legions of acolytes; this is not accidental, but a conscious repudiation of the ascendant literary mores.