Sentence examples for succinct prose from inspiring English sources

Their tales unfold in wryly succinct prose — and are written in slightly creaky cursive — inside buff-colored windows.

The great nature writer Peter Matthiessen identified its "fearless and succinct" prose as "the cornerstone of the new environmentalism".

She enjoyed a close, nurturing relationship with the New Yorker, which ran many of her excellent short stories and for which her succinct prose style might have been specially devised.

[ 41] Accordingly, this journal recommends that authors use "clear, succinct prose" and that they consider research reports as a "story," i.e., "an attempt to communicate an experience" that "brings the reader as close to the actual experience as possible".

Do not expect succinct or graceful prose.

His succinct and lucid prose style exerted a powerful influence on American and British fiction in the 20th century.

On a line-by-line level, furthermore, the prose is limpidly succinct and evocative.

His prose is so crisp, succinct, beautifully simple.

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.

But her prose here is graceful and succinct, and as the author William Weaver puts it in his foreword, Ms. Phillips-Matz has an infectious "love of documents".

A succinct review of the indictment — and a fair sample of appreciative sports-page prose — appeared the very day of Williams' valedictory, in a column by Huck Finnegan in the Boston American (no sentimentalist, Huck): Williams' career, in contrast [to Babe Ruth's] has been a series of failures except for his averages.