"My hand gets tired," he said, opening up his notebook to pages of tiny, neat prose.
I get very upset by just tiny glitches in prose style, and I get impatient.
I applaud Mr. Miroshnichenko in not weighing his ballet down with literal depictions of Chekhov's details, but then I wish he weren't even tackling Chekhov, whose prose makes detail upon tiny detail piercingly significant and multifaceted.
A tiny girl figures in Andersen's prose fantasy "A Journey on Foot from Holmen's Canal to the East Point of Amager" (1828), and a literary image similar to Andersen's tiny being inside a flower is found in E. T. A. Hoffmann's "Princess Brambilla" (1821).
He understands the fragility of the Romantic mind, and finds tiny clues in the poetry or the prose that would elude a less sensitive observer.Above all, he is a most exacting collector of detail.
In their early years, they produce the same adorable, odd pieces of prose and verse you might expect from tiny people who don't understand the world.
Patrick Barlow, who adapted the Tony-winning 39 Steps, has again employed his gift for economical prose, having five actors bring Scrooge, Jacob Marley, Bob Cratchet, Tiny Tim and Mrs. Fezziwig, among others, to life.
Yet Amis's father, Kingsley, used semicolons to superb comic effect (vide the hangover scene in "Lucky Jim"), and V. S. Naipaul drops them regularly, like tiny bombs of Alka-Seltzer, into his paragraphs of dyspeptic prose.
Sports Illustrated did an entire feature dedicated to gawking over LeBron James' body with poetic prose describing how his "raised veins run like tiny interstates up his arms and calves".
