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And, perhaps more interesting, does McGrath (never exactly a straightforward writer) even intend us to?
In a more straightforward writer one might suspect the partner of idealism to be opportunism.
God bless the straightforward writer, and God bless those with the ability to amuse, provoke, surprise, shock, appall.
Murr, a bracingly straightforward writer whose flourishes are rare and subtle (a too-thin schoolteacher has "pale freckled skin sealed to her bones"), dexterously advances multiple story lines, overlapping them now and then with rich results.
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Voting for the Cy Young is more straightforward; writers simply give it to the best pitcher.
I think both of them are really honest, straightforward writers.
The best writing in the book is less affected, calling to mind a slightly skewed version of more straightforward Southern writers like Ellen Gilchrist and Nancy Lemann.
Mrs. Petrash is a one-handed typist and a straightforward, just-the-facts writer who reserves certain assignments for herself.
Yet this was not straightforward reaction; rather, the writer's complex political standpoint – fully enunciated in his play, but only really comprehensible to a non-Soviet in the novel The White Guard – had its roots in the same black Ukrainian soil from which the myriad regimes of the civil war sprang.
And while there is no straightforward answer to why writers drink, Laing explores the causes in admirable detail and astonishingly good prose – incisive, powerful, illuminating – that rivals the output of the authors she is writing about.
One piece that I have personally used in this exercise was a complex, yet straightforward, obituary of the controversial writer and documentarian Heinrich Harrer, written by New York Times reporter Douglas Martin.
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