Sentence examples for ornate prose from inspiring English sources

The stories are simultaneously Dickensian and Burroughsian; grotesque comedy narrated in ornate prose.

They are written in his distinct, ornate prose, but possess an openhearted immediacy not found in his fiction.

Of special interest is the rhymed prose (sajʿ) peculiar to soothsayers, which developed into an important form of ornate prose writing in every Islamic country.

It is here that the novel works best, as the chapters oscillate between violence and affection, pathos and humour, enriched by Torres's fresh and ornate prose.

In practice, when we lack, say, Russian, and read Mandelstam's poems in English, we convert them out of their poetic forms, and scan them as pieces of ornate prose.

The earth's quiet beauty and the horror of ancient battles, malevolent pot-bellied giants and castles tenanted by grey-clad husks of malice are conveyed in mellifluous, ornate prose, never overwhelming for all its richness.

Her Buddhist view of life's fleeting nature and the vanity of human affairs added a dash of melancholy to her ornate aristocratic prose.

At their best, writers like Mr. Eggers and Ms. Smith combine a mandarin love of ornate, even byzantine prose with the vernacular energy of the streets, tossing together the literary and the colloquial with hyperventilated glee.

The 19th-century English art critic John Ruskin had a more precise gift of observation, as revealed in his descriptions of Alpine mountains and of the humblest flowers or mosses, but his ornate and sonorous prose was the climax of a high-flown manner of writing that later read like the majestic relic of another era.

Unsurpassed as a perspective on the complexities of the Middle Eastern campaign, the book can nevertheless be considered at least part-fiction thanks to its questionable historicity and its tendency towards the lyrical and its ornate 19th-century prose style evidencing Lawrence's aspiration towards high art.

In prose that is ornate and spare by turns, Hagy explores the meagre possibilities of individual redemption in a society traumatized by unspeakable violence.