Sentence examples for dry writers from inspiring English sources

In this country money now has an almighty power that can seal people's lips and dry writers' pens.

With most of the eyewitnesses gone, however, and the tattered clippings picked dry, writers are left to "reinterpret" the facts, leaning heavily on imagination.

This seemed stingy, especially since an important effect of global warming is that, as rivers run dry, writers will have to drink more beer.

Ephron is one of the funniest and most dazzlingly dry writers alive, a fact as much in evidence in her Oscar-nominated screenplays ( When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle) and novel (Heartburn, her roman à clef about her failed marriage to Watergate exposer Carl Bernstein) as in her journalism, written between 1965 and 1975.

Even as he delights in the scorn of others (a recent blog post was titled "Today in Exquisite Insults"), he imagines himself to be a rather dry, abstract writer who takes little interest in individuals.

This book's length would seem even more surprising given Mr. Frank's scant reliance on anecdotes or filler; by his not having personalized or dramatized his nonfiction material; by the small number of major points on which he concentrates; and by his use of the "as we shall see" construction, which would seem to brand him as a dry professorial writer.

Three: what surer sign is there that the creative aquifers are running dry than a writer creating a writer-character?" The review is too nasty to be just, but its self-protective mockery does provide a good example of an outstanding quality of the book: self-consciousness.

Victorian rainfall levels were no higher than average (stretches of the 1850s were problematically dry) but Victorian writers perceived their world as a watery one.

It is interesting that the torrential Thurber is the one who talked most about that dread of all writers - drying up...

As much as I appreciated Mr. Rouve's dry deadpan detective writer and Ms. Quinton's seductive, occasionally poignant pinup, I felt continually nudged by the movie's winking self-awareness.

Instead of pathologizing dry spells as impenetrable writers' blocks, try something new, trusting that your old ways of using your voice will come home to roost again, this time with lots of new ways to fly.