Sentence examples for shrewd prose from inspiring English sources

"Before you ask me who wrote this shrewd prose," he said, "let me just say: Speeches are like sausages.

(Answer: C. Shrewd, Rudy. Shrewd!).

Shrewd observers and lavish prose stylists, the writers on this list deserve your readership.

Ms. Scotti's prose is shrewd one moment, inept the next.

Poor Richard's, enlivened by Franklin's shrewd wit and straightforward prose style, remained a best-seller in the American colonies until sold by him in 1758.

Part of Didion's eternal appeal, Dunne explains, is how inviting her writing is, a quality that manifests itself in pieces like The White Album and On Self-Respect, where it often seems like she's working her thoughts out on the page, delicately spinning a web of whimsical prose and shrewd reporting.

The economy, precision, and wit of her prose style; the shrewd, amused sympathy expressed toward her characters; and the skillfulness of her characterization and storytelling continue to enchant readers.

It is this modernity, together with the wit, realism, and timelessness of her prose style; her shrewd, amused sympathy; and the satisfaction to be found in stories so skillfully told, in novels so beautifully constructed, that helps to explain her continuing appeal for readers of all kinds.

Schulman's account of the Carter years is particularly illuminating in a book of shrewd historical analysis and clear anecdotal prose.

Together with the prose, which is fast-paced and full of shrewd judgments, what is most impressive about McDougall's narrative is the range of sources he has used.

But because Welsh shuns the traditional tools by which novelists dramatize such Big Themes (i.e., plot, character development, shrewd narration), this history comes at the reader mostly uncut, in brief jags of journalistic prose.