And yet he's also prone to writing the kind of songs you might expect from a narcissistic teenager with antisocial behaviour issues.
Many of the reviews I've read of DeLillo's latest book, Zero K, talk about "late period" DeLillo, suggesting that since Underworld, he's been prone to writing similar books – marked by slender plotting, elusive meanings and dense, elliptical prose.
Weaving well-researched social history with a compelling account of political machinations in Rome, the picture here is not just of a libertine prone to writing of his obscene desires, but a soulful man at the heart of a remarkable age.
While Betsy is prone to writing emotionally honest if melancholic accounts of her mother's life, Lois is hyperbolic, penning high highs and tragic lows.
Real-time code is error-prone, expensive to write, and even more costly to debug.
Mr. Taylor, who has written that blacks "left entirely to their own devices" are incapable of civilization, and whose magazine, American Renaissance, once published an essay arguing that blacks were genetically more prone to crime, wrote on his blog that Mr. Trump had handled the attacks on him "in the nicest way".
Marlborough did not wish for a Jacobite restoration, but William was conscious of his military and political qualities, and the danger the Earl posed: "William was not prone to fear," wrote Thomas Macaulay, "but if there was anyone on earth that he feared, it was Marlborough".
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Simenon, not prone to grand literary statements, once said that he wanted to write like Sophocles or Euripides.
