Sentence examples for fertile prose from inspiring English sources

What comes through most powerfully in Russell's fertile prose is the humid, mosquito-ridden atmosphere of the Florida swamp and the beguiling strangeness of the creatures – humans included – that make it their home.

The stories are full of striking passages – the eroticism and awkwardness of Joan's undressing in front of her husband long after the sex has seeped out of their relationship in "Nakedness"; the vulnerabilities that are exposed in "Giving Blood"; the uneasy heat of "Wife-Wooing" – and Updike's rich prose, his rhythmic, acute, fertile and, at times, even somewhat glutting use of language.

Earlier this year in the Book Review, Annette Kobak praised the author's "outstandingly generous and fertile imagination" and her "limber and vivid" prose.

As a more traditional modern muse, Prose offers up Suzanne Farrell, who cast such a fertile spell on George Balanchine.

Francine Prose.

Documentary prose?

Prose endures.

Fertile cropland!

Combat-boot prose, footcloth prose.

In her first nonfiction outing, Prose assesses women without whom the product of some male artists would have been different, from Alice Liddell Lewis Carrolll's Alice) to Suzanne Farrell (who cast a fertile spell on George Balanchine).

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.