In gentle but rock-firm prose, Ms. Brown's shrewdly chiseled stories observed the well-worn manners and mannerisms of long-established Southerners, both black and white, and described the ingrown complexities — the family conflicts, the racial delicacies (and indelicacies) and the imperatives of church and community — in a region waking to the modern world.
In this, her best book, Mortimer employs a steely, sceptical firm-eyed prose, which pays readers the compliment of regarding them almost as collaborators.
The director Matt Torney redraws the newly formed triangle with elegant focus, and his actors have a firm handle on the stylized prose.
But 16 years of writing and editing tax publications — most recently for the Washington National Tax office of downtown accounting firm KPMG LLP — hasn't dulled her prose.
Kelley David's brother and IDEO's general manager presents (albeit in rather pedestrian prose) a story-filled synthesis of his firm's best practices.
He seems to have had a richer vocabulary, a keener ear, a wider range of effects — all of this supported by the firm bones of a Latinate syntax — than any English prose writer before or since.
In 20 pages of turgid prose, the judges decided ABC, a San Antonio, Tex.-based Tex.-basedd use the "income firmcould method of depreciation instead of ordinary dousee-declining-balance accelerathe deprecincome.
If the old firm had hoped to be congratulated on its commitment to contemporary prose, it was in for a shock.
Ted's annual State of the Firm remarks are legendary, delivered in Ted's unique style, with his galloping prose, impeccable timing, alliterative charms and inimitable wit.
