Sentence examples for lean prose from inspiring English sources

Dalton's approach, combining exhaustive research with lean prose, is more austere.

His lean prose is infused with irony and scepticism, and these Voltairean qualities are evident in Camilleri's narrative technique.

Cooke distills Westlake's lean prose to concentrated bursts of scruffy chiaroscuro, looming negative space, pacing-tiger tension and ice-cold violence.

That sounds like a credo and, as The Kind Man demonstrates, she favours a spare, lean prose, with no hint of purple.

AMOS WALKER: The Complete Story Collection (Tyrus Books, $32.95) is packed with lean prose, terse dialogue, tough-guy humor and balletically choreographed violence, all in service to a throwback hero who'll fight to the death for his beleaguered hometown.

Young Stevie realises that he offends least when he asks nothing, bothers no one.Despite a plot driven by unhappy silences, "scratches shut in", this is a brilliantly compelling and powerful work, told in beautiful, lean prose.

And all of it in the leanest prose imaginable.

"Seiffert writes lean, clean prose," David Sacks said here last year.

In a climate of criticism too much given over to theories and isms, his lean, accurate prose should be honored and made welcome".

What this book also does in its 151 pages of lean, measured prose is to put you through an emotional wringer.

This is narrative photo-realism, the work of a gifted writer who in lean, sharp prose conjures a powerful sense of place and action.