This should be a tight paragraph that has no waffle in it.
From them, in the tight, condensed paragraphs of the country diary, he began what became a half-century of conveying his passion for the Lake District.
Likewise the death of her longtime companion, the American novelist Eda Lord, who, as we learn in a few tight-lipped paragraphs in "Quicksands," was an alcoholic and had an unhappy end.
The story presents a series of puzzles and potential interpretations, while Rulfo, typically, gives the reader no clues beyond the man's speech and two short, tight-lipped paragraphs of third-person narration.
In a single tight, smart three-sentence paragraph from his smoking-hot new crime novel, Charlie Huston encapsulates his highly evolved wiseguy methodology.
But for all his outspokenness, when I ask him about the contours of his life, Ferguson, who usually speaks in complete paragraphs, becomes tight-lipped – or perhaps merely tired, faced with going over old ground.
We hold tight to thesis sentence and five-paragraph structure.
One paragraph specifically mentions the New England Patriots tight end's floating fiesta, which ended safely and without (serious) incident Monday.
Brandon Sanderson's prose is considerably tighter than Jordan's, but he still spends 11 entire paragraphs describing the wind blowing, and it ain't John Steinbeck.
The editors have kept in their hosts' pauses, their gestures, their paragraph-long remembrances - never intruding with the tight close-up and abbreviated clip that network newsmagazines often use for maximum emotional impact.
In agreement with the data presented in the previous paragraph, we found the Sca-1+ cells formed tight compact spheres whereas the Sca-1− cells remained mostly independent, occasionally forming loosely attached chains of cells (Fig. 2F,G).
