Sentence examples for precise writer from inspiring English sources

Cho is a precise writer and a lyrical one.

Machiavelli was a very precise writer, continually reworking his manuscripts to achieve a style that is as clear as daylight.

O'Malley is a strikingly lyrical and precise writer, but like Maggie, he could stand to go a little easier on the coloratura.

Highsmith was a pared-down, precise writer whose stories rarely strayed from the solipsistic minds of her protagonists — most of them killers (like the suave psychopath Tom Ripley) or would-be killers (like the unhappy husbands in several of her books).

Maazel is such a fine, precise writer ("At night we collapsed into each other. By morning we were like marionettes in a box, tangled in sleep, apart onstage"), she can convince the reader of almost anything, but it's the almost anything that gives one pause.

Mabey, still best known as the author of Food for Free, has always been an inordinately precise writer: this is the superpower that enables him to make thoroughwort look beautiful, and knotgrass seem positively numinous (his last book, you will recall, was all about weeds).

In the meantime, though, precise writers and careful readers still balk at this usage, and we should avoid it in almost all cases.

Plimpton – who died in 2003 aged 76 – was a lyrical, precise observational writer, with a keen eye for human absurdity, especially his own.

Generally, comedians with looser, more conversational material churn them out more frequently, while precise, dense writers tend to wait longer – Steven Wright, the king of one-liners, has released only two specials in his 35-year career.

One effect of this discrepant attention is that it is sometimes difficult to determine what precise meaning earlier writers intended in their discussions of "coercion," as well as to decide whether "coercion" captures something different from or related to other frequently used terms, such as violence, compulsion, punishment, force, or interference.

Even a writer as precise as Moran finds it hard, at times, to keep the distinction clear.