Sentence examples for skilful prose from inspiring English sources

In her debut novel Acts of Omission (John Murray, £14.99), former BBC journalist Terry Stiastny proves herself a skilful prose stylist and a connoisseur of telling details.

Good prose ignores protocols.

Her writing is rich, so rich it would be easy to miss how skilful is the prose itself.

The White Family is a worthwhile novel, but Gee's skilful structure and tender, precise prose are undermined by riffs on pop psychology: as Alfred realises that the 'enemy' is no more than a bunch of 'giant teenagers', his eyes are opened to their exoticism and the 'gleaming black' of their skin.

Prose, our good intentions.

Dave Rolinson notes that, while "the adaptation inevitably misses Dickens's nuanced and often unsettling prose,... it achieves comparably skilful effects through visual language and sound, heightening theme and supernatural mood..

Skilfulness: I quickly became skilful with TALOE web tool.

Talent: Skilful comebacks.

Tough and skilful forwards.

They are very skilful.

Francine Prose.