Soon, other writers, especially women, would be celebrating her dry, lean, often cryptic essays.
Although much of the subject matter is unavoidably dry and academic, the essays provide a competent introduction to the subject.
"Curriculum Vitae," her essay in dry-bread autobiography, was written in laconic straight lines as if to warn away readers from seeking her in her curving fictional maze.
'I' now and 'I' then are certainly twain, but which 'I' was better?" Many of his early essays are dry affairs, culling precepts and exempla about cowardice and mercy, death and philosophy into elegant but on the whole unoriginal digests.
Jamie vividly brings to life the cold northern world of uninhabited Hebridean islands and elongated Scandinavian days and nights".La Cueva" is an outstanding essay, a dry-break from the sea-life of the other essays, a trip down into a cave that delves into the history of consciousness.
The title essay is typically dry and undemandingly confiding.
Devotees of Japanese pop culture may find Mr. Clark's catalog essay a little dry.
I felt they should become really interested in the process of writing in order to overcome this inner reluctance that had already resulted in some very dry, done-for-the-grade essays that they had written at the beginning of class on the regular set of topics I had assigned: your autobiography, your family, memories from childhood, journal writings, etc.
His autobiography, This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death, appeared in 1996, and several of his books were published posthumously, including the nonfiction meditation My Venice (1998) and the essay collection Sea Battles on Dry Land (1999).
VCs realised that if students are paying £9,000 a year, the least they expect is a seat to sit on in lectures, a desk on which to write an essay, and somewhere warm and dry to eat a sandwich.
