After praising Doughty's travelogue "Arabia Deserta" (the "words that exactly describe," the sentences that "meander"), he reflects on the benefits of war for the writer: it sends him out into territory — though it "may well be at home" — that, by being strange and demanding the acceptance of strangeness, forces him to develop a pure, honest, singular style that "shall be his monument".
Thomas speaks carefully, each word deliberate, in precise, fully constructed sentences, never meandering or fudging.
The meanings of Walser's meandering sentences scurry away — right under the nose of the teacher or Inquisitor.
When readers see the name "Sir Walter Scott" on a spine, it's almost as if a miasma of preconceptions and prejudices – aristocratic privilege, dull pomposity, archaic conservatism, royal sycophancy, meandering sentences – comes swirling up like so many dust motes blown off a book right at the back of an antiquarian bookseller's.
Don't concern yourself with flowery transitions, big words, or lengthy, meandering sentences - your intent should be to communicate what needs to be said as quickly and cleanly as possible.
You don't have time to meander.
His enthusiasm, expressed in meandering, enumerative sentences, is intense and catching: "There were light, ethereal lavenders; some were mild and timid; others lush and overbearing; some tart, as if picked from the field and left to parch in large vats of vinegar; others were overwhelmingly sweet.
Lacey's prose captures Elyria's increasingly fragile and paranoid mental state, with meandering, looping sentences that begin to break apart under the weight of their anxious length.
There's time for meandering".
