Sentence examples for direct prose from inspiring English sources
She has a nice, direct prose style and a flair for the melodramatic, both of which make for some good storytelling (hence the page turning).
He doesn't embellish when direct prose works on its own: Nelson grew into a young man and attended fine schools in the golden city of Johannesburg, where Africans were poor and powerless.
Like Han Yu, Ouyang advocated a simpler, more direct prose to replace the mannered and excessively rhythmic style then popular, and his writings in the resultant guwen style established a model emulated thenceforth.
He writes of refugees in Rwanda and Croatia and the homeless in his native Missouri in clear, direct prose that is appropriate for his readers without minimizing people's suffering or their humanity.
In The Love Object we see the trajectory of a love affair and in strikingly direct prose witness the devastating effect it has on the attractive, single-mother narrator.
There's also fertile ground for discussion of the influence of Tom Spanbauer, his ideas about "dangerous writing" and the benefits of exploring uncomfortable personal experiences in sparse, direct prose.
His attempts to set forth his philosophy in more-direct prose, in the publications in 1886 of Jenseits von Gut und Böse (Beyond Good and Evil) and in 1887 of Zur Genealogie der Moral (On the Genealogy of Morals), also failed to win a proper audience.
There are all the categories: plays, films, acting, directing, prose, poetry and politics.
Certainly, the aural, kinetic, and emotive directives in verse are more direct than prose, though, in the hands of a master of prose dialogue like Shaw or Chekhov, prose can also share these qualities.
Her column was cheerful and direct; its prose colloquial; its tone straight from the shoulder; its advice that of an amiable neighbor, a trusted friend.
It's a compulsively readable, life-affirming tale told in direct, lambent prose, and Chait does a masterful job of juxtaposing a traditional African setting with a convincing depiction of a far-future alien society.
