Sentence examples for splendid writer from inspiring English sources

Origo was a splendid writer and a fine person.

Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) is another splendid writer whose prose is also a performance of his philosophy.

The incongruity of this passage — the sententious advice about the pitfalls of writerly solitude, blah blah, followed by that marvelous detail about bits of cud mortaring the man's mouth shut — points to a larger problem with the novel: namely that the reclusive, inscrutable artist is a dreary cliché that even a splendid writer like Gilbert can't quite transcend.

Perhaps I'm too close – I lived there for a couple of years, until a girl disaster – but all resonated in this splendid refraction of writer Tom Rob Smith's dark mind.

She is a splendid example of the woman writer who made it from the margins; also, just as important, a writer who always demonstrates how vital counter-cultural impulses are to the very existence of any worthwhile tradition.

I was one of two of his authors shortlisted, the other being Dave Goulson, writer of the splendid A Sting in the Tale.

One afternoon the writer observed a splendid sand-colored dog, roughly the conformation of an Airedale but not as large, disorganizing a whole block of upper Broadway with a rapid-fire display of good-humored antics.

And yet this could stand as it as, as a splendid descriptive exercise, with the writer considering what to do when, in the course of composing it, a poem threatens to become overloaded.

In his splendid essay North of South, writer Shiva Naipaul reported that a new tribe had sprung up in Africa.

There are some splendid (and unexpected) inclusions from writers like Laurence Sterne and G. K. Chesterton (not at all a name I associate with wild romance), and some predictable but still moving letters from Keats and Schumann, but for the most part the collection seems random and haphazard.

While picketing I regaled my fellow writers about this splendid actress, my heart aching for our collective loss, for my personal loss.