Unlike other ventures and books targeting women, LearnVest's Web site lacks the syrupy-sweet prose and frilly packaging; the team appears to understand that financial matters don't need to be feminized.
"But just when you expect to find chocolate chips in her sweet little prose treats, there are little rat-poison pellets instead".
Caitlin Sweet's shimmering prose, already apparent in her debut novel A Telling of Stars, reaches new heights in The Pattern Scars, which is so replete with luminous images and an evocative atmosphere that even now, a week later, these sensations still haunt my memory as if they had been real, a country I visited and would return to again.
It has given American novels a cocky swagger that survives still: the energy of Philip Roth's prose, the sweet spin that George Saunders gives to his tales of McWorld, the tragic passions of Toni Morrison.
The clarity, wit and sweet temper of its prose come from a different time, when (one might say) the Old Few, if not actually ruling, at least bumbled about.
My sweet, sweet, sweetness.
The Bellinis arrived and were too sweet -- like Hemingway's prose, they may have been wonderful once but others have since improved upon them.
The excerpts, mimeographed with blank spaces for the authors to fill in, have a sweet earnestness to them – the prose gives a sense of some really heavy spectacles massively magnifying young McAllister's eyes.
The prose is zippy and sweet, but the tone belies the real dramatic engine of the book: the weight of loss that Fin will never quite escape.
He also wrote one of the earliest available romance classics in Kannada called Karnataka Kadambari in sweet and flowing champu (mixed verse and prose) style.
Her last, "On Beauty," managed to be interesting about aesthetics as well as about race and compassion, and the prose was well turned and sweet-natured to match.
