Sentence examples for flat prose from inspiring English sources
Like Lin's simple but never flat prose, his characters have become authentic.
Reading Mitchell's memoranda, the satisfaction in the covert control he exerted over other people shines through his flat prose.
Reading between the lines of Copland's flat prose, you can sense his anxiety that he was falling too conspicuously into the second category.
But what grates here is not so much the sloppiness or the flat prose as the absence of even the slightest complication.
But Mr. Teerlink and Mr. Ozley, in recounting the story step by step, cannot escape the flat prose of the business world.
But like many fine writers of fiction Mr. Lipton has the gift of seeing the everyday at just enough of a slant to slide flat prose into prickly poetry.
Its characters are flat; its prose — well, call it utilitarian.
As the plot rumbles on, the flat, functional prose is occasionally illuminated by a strange lyricism.
He likes to surprise, though, and one surprise in his new book (not the biggest surprise) is that it is all done in flat, newspaper prose.
For the Sunday Times's Daisy Goodwin, it was "almost as troubling as its awful subject matter", leaving the reader unsure if "her flat, affectless prose is a stylistic choice or simply the deadened testimony of a survivor".
The opening and closing thirds of the book are written in flat, elegant prose, while the middle section, Pippa's younger years, are given a first-person Technicolor sheen.
