Sentence examples for murky prose from inspiring English sources

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ON THE DOCKET of two weeks ago inquired as to why lawyers write so lousily — why they favor Latinisms and murky prose over plain English — and concluded that they see this behavior as good for business.

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In less than 100 pages of murky and illogical prose she tells the world that we must let Fascism take its course and learn to live with it, if necessary.

Academics were put off by this autodidact from the murky demimonde, whose rambling prose was full of marginal jeremiads.

However, her own prose remains murky, and the aphorisms she quotes are either tautological ("Understanding is arrived at by personal‐experiences‐personally‐experienced") or self‐evident ("I cannot develop you; I can create conditions in which you can develop yourself") or so cryptic as to be only doubtfully helpful (in understanding, "knowledge is only a passing presence").

It's a murky and uneven book, too, one that Mr. de Bellaigue's twitchy intellect and acid prose can't quite rescue.

What redeems this mess of born-again cliches is Wilson's utterly confident prose, which is as clear and level-headed as the plotting is murky and overexcited.

Hitchens's prose lacks Orwell's brevity and clarity, and - as if by contagion - becomes murkier still when he battles with the likes of Raymond Williams; but, like Sonia, he seems on the side of the angels.

In spare, declarative prose, Galgut spins a brisk and bracing story, but he's also in pursuit of something murkier: the double-edged nature of doing good in a land where "the past has only just happened".

— is murky.

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