Effective foreign policy always/always starts by consulting with a wide range of credible experts attuned to national interests, not speechwriters channeling unbridled pie-in-the-sky prose masquerading as strategic policy, no matter the consequence to national security.
Gulia served as editor of the first Abkhaz-language newspaper, Apsny (founded 1919), which published his Under a Foreign Sky, the first original prose work in Abkhaz.
It is easy enough for a good writer (and this is very good prose — that "inner wedge of sky" perfectly capturing the living blueness of atmosphere) to do something verbally fine with the extremities of desert.
"The trailhead was dry and the slope gentle and ticketed with yellow aspen leaves, and the vast fresh silence sounded in the sky," writes Carlson, whose precise low-key prose is perfectly tuned to modulations in light, weather and landscape.
11.31am: Five days of quiet skies has inspired some nice poetry and prose.
Ruskin was both an ecstatic prose poet and a scientific sky-watcher: in the winter of 1859-60 he counted the "streets" of high cirrus clouds, "not just seven or eight but 150 distinct streets.
(And, of course, the fleeting season turns our prose purpler than the early September night's sky).
(And, of course, the fleeting season turns our prose purpler than the early September night's sky). Summer vacation exists just for a tiny few the young or the rich or the idle.
Leroi's prose is as blue-white bright as an Aegean sky reflected from a whitewashed wall.
And his prose is as clear and light as the blue sky of a perfect day for flying.
Hard not to flinch when the previously restrained prose gives over to Technicolor nonsense: "Against a sapphire sky, silhouettes danced around a fire".
