Sentence examples for descriptive writers from inspiring English sources

The best descriptive writers find a way to balance nouns and verbs, inertia and action, tranquillity and turbulence.

Descriptive writers might focus, for example, on how election workers handle confused or frustrated voters or on the general scene and atmosphere.

"Christopher is a superbly lyrical and descriptive writer".

Rebecca West described her as the greatest descriptive writer of her time.

As he showed in his 1996 novel, "Manhattan Nocturne," Harrison is a wonderful descriptive writer.

Nor can one conclude that his rejection of reason-based systems makes him a purely literary or descriptive writer.

Kapuscinski's previous books, notably The Shadow of the Sun, showed what a gifted descriptive writer he is, and Travels with Herodotus does not disappoint.

Irmscher is a richly descriptive writer with an eye for detail, the complexities and contradictions of character, and the workings of institutional and familial power structures.

As well as art criticism, he led a number of social investigations and Scott later wrote that Whiteing was 'the best, shortest and (word omitted) descriptive writer we have ever had'.

He could be a lovely, descriptive writer, full of adjectival mischief: over-romantic and eager to take liberties with the language, rather like a slightly self-indulgent jazz pianist at times reluctant to return to the central theme.

Her style has also been highly praised, with the novelist Rebecca West counting her as "perhaps the best descriptive writer of our time" and Alistair Cooke calling her the "Flaubert of the jet age".