Satrapi's deceptively simple, remarkably powerful drawings match the precise but flexible prose she employs in adapting to her multiple roles as educator, folklorist, and grand-niece.
His other outstanding contribution to Romanian literature was his Viaţa şi petrecerea sfinţilor (1682 86; "Lives of the Saints"), in which he introduced popular idioms and encouraged the development of a more flexible prose style.
Sima Qian is important not only as a historian but also as a master of racy, flexible Chinese prose.
The popularization of science reached a level of a lucid and elegant art with the writings of Bernard de Fontenelle (1657 1757) in French, Francesco Algarotti (1712 64) in Italian, and later, with a masterpiece of scientific rigour expressed in flexible and precise prose, Introduction à l'étude de la médecine expérimentale, by the physiologist Claude Bernard (1813 78).
His prose is flexible - he can write both long and short - and cleverly masks his intentions.
Here, Desai's prose becomes marvellously flexible, sometimes almost too jumpy and uncontrolled, but always pulsing with energy.
The Vatican says the letter revealed the assassination attempt on the pope in 1981, although it seems to be couched in that really flexible, one-size-fits-all prose used by all truly successful future-forecasters.
Rolle's writings in Latin are overly rhetorical, but his English prose style is lively, flexible, and persuasive.
Four things commend Hazlitt to his followers: his fierce radicalism, his sensitive and critical intelligence, his alternately sunny and sullen disposition, and his prose — his "vigorous," "versatile," "flexible," "slouchy," "layered," "sauntering," "cascading," "nervy," "sinewy," "textured" prose.
The verset is a flexible form approximating free verse and the prose poem and is open to a wide range of emotional expression.
Four things commend Hazlitt to his followers: his fierce radicalism, his sensitive and critical intelligence, his alternately sunny and sullen disposition, and his prose his "vigorous," "versatile," "flexible," "slouchy," "layered," "sauntering," "cascading," "nervy," "sinewy," "textured" prose.
