Sentence examples for sparse prose from inspiring English sources

Ms Mayer, a writer for the New Yorker, describes horrors in sparse prose.

Though Gibbon's sparse prose occasionally feels stilted, her book artfully throws attention from a famous painter onto the woman he paints.

Kasischke's sparse prose sinks us deeply into Diana's sharp, wistful psyche, as ordinary domestic events are imbued with a tension reminiscent of Paula Fox's brilliant "Desperate Characters".

I'm a big admirer of Daniel Woodrell, for his beautiful, precise, sparse prose — I don't do succinct well, so I'm in awe of writers who do.

There is no ironic detachment, no playful cleverness, just page after page of sparse prose, so finely-honed that every word seems hewn out of stone, so perfect and immutable is the sentence that bears it.

In "Holes" and, even more spectacularly, in his "Wayside School" trilogy, Sachar combined sparse prose with Dadaist setups to create a style that's echoed today by deadpan literary tricksters like Tao Lin ("Eeeee Eee Eeee").

Her sparse, satisfying prose is your guide, and you're glad to get to swim beside her.

The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan (1915) John Buchan's espionage thriller, with its sparse, contemporary prose, is hard to put down.

But what this book does have is atmosphere: Petit's sparse, affectless prose is somehow awash with it, as with the patina over certain films.

There's also fertile ground for discussion of the influence of Tom Spanbauer, his ideas about "dangerous writing" and the benefits of exploring uncomfortable personal experiences in sparse, direct prose.

All the trademarks of Bruen's future work are here; sparse, brutal poetic prose, black humour and a sense of bleak desperation in the voice of the narrator.