In recent years she has preferred to strive for fluency with literary language rather than computer code.
Mohr's prose is lean and scrappy — a featherweight boxer that packs a punch — and when we talk over the phone, he speaks with as much fluency about literary structure as he does tattoos and punk rock.
He mixes the loquaciousness of the barfly with the fluency of the literary artist, and could not pen a dull sentence if he tried.
Both authors contrast Johnson's abject youth with his adult fame, his physical awkwardness with his conversational fluency, his self-diagnosed "indolence" with his superhuman literary output.
One of the key points of Walker's epistolary novel is the way Celie's writing style achieves greater fluency and rhythm as she herself matures – a literary device for which the equivalent, in the music and lyrics of Brenda Russell, Allee Willis and Stephen Bray, is one of those declaratory anthems that not even Erivo can rescue from familiarity.
Depardieu's colossal physical strength makes Donissan's self-punishment all the more harrowing even as his nimble, bluntly theatrical fluency gives the priest's visionary agony a strong literary voice.
Emphasis on improving reading fluency and analyzing letters as historical and biographical as well as literary documents.
(A 13th-century chronicler praises a contemporary as a skilled linguist because of his fluency in "French, Lombard, and Tuscan". There was no common literary language before Dante and then only in verse, not prose).
Such a title is a clear liability when trying to get lucky while looking literary at an airport bar.At a time when we take for granted a certain global cultural fluency, it is remarkable just how much of our literature, film and television is inevitably lost in translation.
His fluency in German and Russian, as well as his knowledge of those countries' histories and literary traditions, combined with a commanding, if contradictory, personality.
Whereas her writing can sometimes sound self-consciously literary — as though she were showing off what acrobatics she can make words perform — she puts her verbal fluency here at the service of her characters' stories, illustrating them with scenes that burn like cinematic images, complete with soundtracks, in our minds.
