Sentence examples for for bad writing from inspiring English sources

Great sex often makes for bad writing.

One evening when Marvin joined the flock after slaving on his novel all day, he learned that the senior pigeons had voted to evict him from the park for bad writing.

Just as there's no panacea for bad writing, there's no panacea for veteran writing workshops.

The annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction contest for bad writing has produced another collection of painful prose, The Associated Press reported.

There's the Bulwer-Lytton Award (for bad first sentences), The Delete Key Award (for bad writing), and the Bad Sex in Fiction Award (for, well, you get it).

The combination of creepily evasive syntax ("may even be", "might have been seen") with huge but unargued claims makes for bad writing as well as bad politics.

Nabokov apologizes for Tolstoy's bad writing.

Typographical errors are jarring to the eye; as bad as anachronisms or plain bad writing for jolting you out of a story.

In this country, we have a particularly immature attitude to this kind of thing: just look at the smirking adolescence betrayed by the inaugurators and keepers of the flame of the Bad Sex Awards, a prize whose point has always been unclear to me – is it for good writing about bad sex, bad writing about bad sex, or bad writing about good sex?

If only we would remember who writes the laws and how easy it is today to settle for bad compromises written by special interests, we might be able to break this truly vicious cycle of weak law, bad enforcement, and inevitable harm to the most vulnerable.

A lack of empathy for others, especially for the reader, is to blame for most of the bad writing in the world.