Sentence examples for modest prose from inspiring English sources

I don't wish to overpraise it: it has soft spots; it frequently deals with material covered in better books; you will not confuse the author's modest prose with Nabokov's.

Maybe the modest prose of "Black Beauty" & "Tom Swift & His Electric Runabout are to give them pause, what of those passages of contemporary English that bewilder the contemporary reader.

To me, it sounded and read and looked more like a modest few paragraphs of prose (with a lot to be modest about).

Here, as elsewhere in this collection, the meticulous accumulation of detail over the course of the story gives a wholly satisfying sense of psychological development and dramatic fullness.The greatest pleasure of reading Ms Munro, though, is the prose itself: unaffected, modest, quietly elegant.

The changes are mostly modest and don't alter our goal of publishing clear, literate prose that is largely free of jargon, journalese, slang and sloppiness.

While Murray's earlier collection "The Omni-Americans" (1970) is still the best introduction to his work, "From the Briarpatch File" provides a modest taste of Murray's Southern sensibility and delectable jazzman's prose.

The text's length and verbal imprecision are made worse by the layout: Set in modest-size type, Feinstein's words flow down double columns, twin rivers of digressive prose demanding a reader's sustained concentration — concentration that his cheerful meandering from one subject to the next actively discourages.

Francine Prose.

Documentary prose?

Prose endures.

Combat-boot prose, footcloth prose.