Sentence examples for prose right from inspiring English sources

From his earliest work, he was obsessed with body odor, and olfactory metaphors are probably the most consistent figure in his prose, right to the end of his life, when he congratulated Gandhi for leaving a clean smell when he died.

She constantly read aloud what she had produced, to get "the music of the prose" right, and in an alchemical process of cutting and perfecting, she would distil every dozen or so draft pages into one sheet without a single wasted word.

Impenetrable prose, right?

Is it too much to suggest that those waves and troughs, ebbs and flows, fogs, clouds and moments of piercing brightness in the prose are right for Newfoundland?

He trusted the reader to make the connections between sentences for himself -- so that all the "hences" and "thuses" and "therefores" and "of courses" that afflict ordinary journalists' prose drop right out.

Here, perhaps, is the real-life antecedent of the phony-hearted liberal élitist who stalks the prose of right-wing pundits today.

Bare prose, in the right places, can be equally intense or vivid.

The ocean of her prose has the right amount of whitecaps.

The dullest instructional prose, with the right light thrown on it, can acquire the gleam of suggestiveness or insight.

Some say the who/whom distinction is passé, but in formal prose, getting this right is still a sign of care and polish.

Little original work can be securely dated to the period after Wulfstan's death (1023), but the continued vigour of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle shows that good Old English prose was written right up to the Norman Conquest.