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The friend of a friend's novel may have some redeeming features – the odd nicely shaped sentence, the stray brilliant image.
Plot and character mattered less to him than the ripe bit of regional speech, the fraught incident, the startling metaphor, the ingeniously shaped sentence.
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And this is what Murnane achieves, again and again, through his carefully shaped sentences, the prosaic becoming poetic along their length.
Close your eyes as you touch-type and you are a blacksmith shaping sentences hot out of the forge of your mind.
Then, as you work it over and alter it, you begin to shape sentences that score higher with the ear and eye.
A decade after he captured critical attention with "Pterodactyls" (also at the Vineyard), Mr. Silver continues to shape sentences that have the vibrant, poisoned lusciousness of a John Currin painting.
A decade after capturing critical attention with "Pterodactyls" (also at the Vineyard), Nicky Silver continues to shape sentences that have the vibrant, poisoned lusciousness of a John Currin painting.
Writing with word processors has given a new organisation to shaping sentences but it has also given flexibility; paragraphs can be switched, flipped and thrown out with an ease that would've been impossible when working with a typewriter.
"Of course I would like fewer people in prison because that means fewer people are committing crime, but I don't think that we should deliberately shape sentencing policy with the sole aim of reducing the prison population," he said.
Pessoa never finished it, and saw it as notes he would then shape: sentences are left half-done or with gaps to be filled in later that never were, all indicated by a series of symbols by the book's editor.
Helped by years of classical education in the best tradition of the English public-school system, his stories have heroic resonances, as well as being written in perfectly shaped classical sentences, which makes them a joy to read - and especially out loud.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com