Sentence examples for prolix writing from inspiring English sources
In keeping with most Tarantino movies, The Hateful Eight combines crudity and sophistication, prolix writing with blood-spattered action scenes, acute psychological insights with cartoonish characterisation.
Newman, who has a knack for twisting melodies which recalls that of Squeeze's Glenn Tilbrook, and the prolix Dan Bejar, who writes mainly for his band Destroyer.
The individual pieces are themselves brief, breezy and fun to read, despite occasional eruptions of the prolix and slightly pompous tone that also marred Gould's later science writing.
His haughty attitude provoked one of his soldiers, Bernal Díaz del Castillo, to write a prolix account of the conquest 50 years after the event.
The two foremost Romantic novelists were D.F. Malherbe, who wrote numerous prolix narratives on Biblical themes and South African pioneering history; and C.M. van den Heever, whose work is based mostly on the Afrikaner's conflicts in the transition from a rural to an urban society and implies a natural bond between the farmer and the soil.
It is never better, wherever you are writing, to prefer the less familiar word - "wordy" is always better than "prolix".
Although occasionally prolix and repetitive, Kennedy's volume is an important contribution to our understanding of World War II, and it sets a high standard for historians writing about other conflicts by reminding us to keep a close eye on technology.
It is hard to imagine an author simultaneously so famous and so unfashionable, his novels frequently written off as prolix and unbearably dense.
And as blogs threaten to revolutionize the very concept of a diary, who knows if someone somewhere has somehow written an even more prolix, but still-secret diary?
It is strange seeing Michael Frayn's play so soon after David Hare's Platonov since both are hewn from the same prolix, six-hour text Anton Chekhov wrote when he was 20.
