And his style is filled with long digressions, endless clauses and sub-clauses.
There are a couple of sub-clauses allowing very small deviations from the golden regulation, mostly concerning types of flour.
The rival formulations turn up one after another, in sub-clauses that offer everything from subtle qualification to flat contradiction.
In speech, as in print, his sentences are fluent, looped with brackets and sub-clauses, driven by a sense of narrative and history.
You can almost read the terms of the stars' contracts right up there on the screen, sub-clauses, codicils, addenda, and all.
His sentences were flawlessly grammatical, all sub-clauses correctly inserted, no sentence unfinished or verbless, no wavering of tenses, no subjunctive misused.
The cast of mind used qualification, the aside and the further sub-clauses as a way to suggest that the truth was brittle and easily undermined.
More like an extremely complex formula that, somewhere in a thicket of sub-clauses, could make Nick Clegg, pictured, a happy boy.
His elaborate syntax, replete with sub-clauses and sub-sub-clauses, represents a third type of Victorian aspiration: if Myrtle is the soul of humility and Pompey the Dickensian young man who has overcome his unfortunate beginnings, Dr Potter is the author of the monograph on the formation of the Steppe limestone.
In addition to rendering consciousness and longing, all those sub-clauses and piled-up details allow Lowry to constantly drop references to what D. T. Max argues is the novel's true subject: the Second World War.
