Sentence examples for exact prose from inspiring English sources

The result is an extraordinarily exact prose stunning in its visual accuracy.

Like the rest of her work, the novel is severely achieved: the coolly exact prose cannot be distinguished from the ashen exhaustion of its tragic fires.

Tim O'Brien's Vietnam writing — his memoir, the interlocking stories in "The Things They Carried," and, especially, his novel "Going After Cacciato" — combined Hemingway's hard and exact prose with often fantastical incidents, suited to a jungle war against an invisible enemy.

The emphasis on detail in Carey's sweetly detached, exact prose has forebears in the illuminated dreams of Borges and Calvino and Georges Perec -- and in Carey's first novel, "Observatory Mansions," which has its own idiosyncratic architectural preoccupations.

"His stunningly exact prose stands as a rebuke to the gonzo school of Hunter S Thompson, which assumed that to capture the quality of being intoxicated, you must write as if you were still drunk or stoned.

Would this man, who tunneled through his soul for truth and exacting prose, have jumped into the fray and swam in the writhing currents of Twitter updates?

With her debut short story collection, Instant Love, in 2006, her first novel, The Kept Man, published in 2008, and now her latest novel, The Melting Season, she's garnered acclaim for her deadpan, exacting prose.

This is achieved in exact, weighted prose, phrased in lushly long sentences, not without their grandeur but free of knowingness: A memory inside me was trying to wrestle its way through to consciousness.

Such exacting, buoyant prose — it never flags, and almost compensates for the frivolous design of the universe in which we find Karl and company.

Here was, as John Updike said of Amis in a different context, "an atrocity-minded author" – but one with perhaps the most controlled, exact and fastidious prose style of all contemporary British novelists.

Furst expresses the singular acuity of his historical vision in an exact, nearly telegraphic prose that relies heavily on sentence fragments and rapid-fire sequences of images to capture the extraordinary complexity of his characters' political and personal reality.