Sentence examples for stunning writing from inspiring English sources

Because of Mr. Tesich's grand ambition, which, more often than not, is sustained by a gripping story and passages of stunning writing, "The Speed of Darkness" is not just another obscure Broadway failure.

And yet, by the end of a novel that alternated between intensely annoying me – Tassie is no more a convincing 20-year-old than Philip Roth is a convincing Paris Hilton impersonator – and utterly captivating me with its stunning writing and acute observations, I had come to realise that, just like Momus's book, the jokes were absolutely vital to the success of this novel.

It is a memoir as much about a mother as it is about her son, a memoir born out of stunning writing and surprising vulnerability.

("The technical command is stunning", writes Philip Hensher, "like a Mozart rondo").

Those can lead to stunning write-downs in the billions, as Hewlett-Packard has been forced to take recently.

If he had, he surely would have included it in his survey (he gave the book a stunning write-up in the New Yorker on its US release).

She led the successful fight for a statewide initiative requiring voter approval for tax increases in 1993, and the following year she staged a stunning write-in primary campaign that got her onto the general-election ballot in the 1994 Congressional election and helped her defeat the incumbent, a Democrat, during the Republican surge of that year.

Yet in the same message, Ms. Palin had reveled in Mr. Miller's stunning upset, writing, "Do you believe in miracles?" It took Sarah Palin just four years to help dismantle the political empire the Murkowski family took three decades to build.

In addition to the VCO's performance, the National Philharmonic, which is concluding its own Debussy festival, and its season, with "The Martyrdom of San Sebastian," a sprawling, confusing work filled with sensual mysticism and some stunning orchestral writing.

There is some stunning descriptive writing about the natural world: a bower bird she encounters at a critical moment is "a sort-of crow in fancy dress … clad in a tabard of a yellow so intense that it seemed to burn".

Jorja Leap, an adjunct professor at UCLA who studies the relationship between law enforcement and the community, said the supervisors' move is stunning because writing a motion that will remain in the county's historical record is so deliberate and leaves no room for ambiguity.