Sentence examples for prolix style from inspiring English sources
"Scorched," which runs a long three hours, is hampered by Mr. Mouawad's prolix style.
I have been careful not to omit any facts that could come to my knowledge, but at the same time not to offend by a prolix style those minds that despise everything modern.…No man can write with more accuracy than I of events that took place about me, and of facts concerning which I had personal knowledge.
He is aware of his biographical obligations and sets forth his point of view and his motives: I have been careful not to omit any facts that could come to my knowledge, but at the same time not to offend by a prolix style those minds that despise everything modern.…No man can write with more accuracy than I of events that took place about me, and of facts concerning which I had personal knowledge.
Schwartz has a wildly prolix, rattling style, and her passion for wordplay borders on compulsion.
In the prologue of the book, Helga explains that although "the writing is childish, the style prolix, naive," she felt editorial changes would have affected the authenticity of the story.
If, as she notes, theory has often been accused of being "obscure, turgid, or prolix," her own style is the exemplary antithesis, apart from a few verbatim repetitions (16).
His deliberately prolix and minutely detailed style drew comparison to that of French novelist Marcel Proust in the seven-volume novel À la recherche du temps perdu (1913 27; In Search of Lost Time).
His novels tend to be prolix and didactic, and his style is often dogged.
Though Afrit's cluing style is at times prolix and his grids seem a little odd by today's standards (ignoring digraphs, for example), he was without doubt a major figure in the early development of cryptic crosswords and is acknowledged as such by most major setters.
But after the assault on Marley's home, a brilliant, central sequence, this intoxicatingly prolix narrative loses its way in a tedious aftermath.
Hall doesn't seem to understand this, and his prolix, repetitive book quickly loses its way.
