Sentence examples for obscure prose from inspiring English sources

Flashes of illumination are followed by pages that read like an obscure prose poem suggestive, but enigmatic and sometimes unyielding.

He began wrestling with thorny grammar and obscure prose while majoring in Greek and Latin at Harvard, but eventually abandoned the classics for journalism.

The words come from The Book of the Law, an obscure prose poem written 100 years ago by Aleister Crowley, often described as the key to the notorious Magus's vast pantheon of writings.

For what is there to say about a child being tortured, in such obscure "poetic" prose?

He confessed to his own early dislike for Hemingway, and how it had taken him a long time to read the words without seeing the man — indeed, this might be the most extreme example of the myth obscuring the prose.

Jammed with allusion, tricksy syntax and obscure vocabulary, its prose must be hacked through like a thorn bush.

The inadequate maps do not help make sense of the many unfamiliar place names.But even the author's plodding prose cannot obscure the exciting bits.

In the August issue of The Atlantic Monthly, B. R. Myers charged that critical acclaim and literary prizes are routinely showered on writers -- Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Annie Proulx and Steve Guterson were his case studies -- who write obscure, pretentious, reader-unfriendly prose.

For while his prose sometimes obscures the fact, Mamet is a clear, exacting thinker.

They tend to speak in tortured prose that obscures more than it illuminates.

Her political profile sometimes obscures Ms. Sánchez's prose style and connection to Latin American and other literary traditions, say those familiar with her work.