In LeDuff's case, the inflated prose is an expression of personality; with Hedges, the son of a Presbyterian minister, it's a matter of homiletics, a vision of sin and salvation.
The first importance of John Ruskin is as an art critic who, in Modern Painters (5 vol., 1843 60), brought Romantic theory to the study of painting and forged an appropriate prose for its expression.
** DeLillo's fervent intelligence and his fastidious, edgy prose, buzzing with expressions like "wave arrays of information," weave halos of import around every event, however far-fetched and random.
DeLillo's fervent intelligence and his fastidious, edgy prose, buzzing with expressions like "wave arrays of information," weave halos of import around every event, however far-fetched and random.
This week, the local newspapers were struggling to explain the tangle to confused readers, puzzling over the sudden collapse of what appeared to be an Italian national champion, peppering their Italian prose with English expressions that probably meant little to the average Parma reader, like credit default swaps, self reference notes and trigger ratings.
For Mapanje, poetry is a more "natural" means of expression than prose, a means of communication that "anybody who hasn't got any craft will come to".
This age of gods was succeeded by an age of heroes and finally by an age of men, whose characteristic expression was prose and whose inevitable trope was irony.
To a non-analyst, the lyrics would sound odd, out of place, and senseless, but if we look into hidden meanings, we can see the whole truth, opening up anarchical worlds of nihilist expression and prose.
Religious symbols and pictures may be identical with, related to, or similar to those of language (metaphors) and to pictorial expressions in prose and poetry.
He is considerably handicapped by a syrupy prose style that prefers stale expression ("quality time," "empower," "role model") to vividness.
