Sentence examples for facile prose from inspiring English sources
I was a hack, like most early achievers, turning out facile prose to meet my masters' needs.
His generally facile prose is at times a trifle literary, and he sometimes loses control of his elaborate metaphors.
As socialism claims to speak for the underdog, it lends itself to facile, dramatic and righteous prose.
As the author himself points out, demonology is no substitute for history.What also jars, to less effect, though, is when the author's effortless prose turns facile.
Reviewing Hurston's novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God" in the New Masses the previous fall, he had dismissed her prose for its "facile sensuality" — a problem in Negro writing that he traced to the first black American female to earn literary fame, the slave Phillis Wheatley.
Janie's panting teen-age sexuality is rendered in a self-consciously hyper-adolescent prose of kissing bees and creaming blossoms — prose that Wright seized on for its "facile sensuality" and that Hurston's admirers now quote with dismaying regularity as an example of her literary art.
In mollifying prose, they wrote that it was "important not to inflame the debate over cabinet nominees over facile charges of racism" -- a deliberate contrast to the positions of the Congressional Black Caucus and civil rights figures like the Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rev. Al Sharpton.
Danziger's prose may not be Nabokovian – although it's certainly welcoming to the reader – but the subject matter is anything but facile.
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