Sentence examples for tortured prose from inspiring English sources
They tend to speak in tortured prose that obscures more than it illuminates.
Cover letters are "where we find the most tortured prose ever set to paper," the site says.
Lopate's hapless protagonist, with his tortured prose, soporific digressions and selective revelations, manages the near impossible — giving too much information and at the same time saying nothing.
The rich jacquard roses sprouting throughout Frida Giannini's fall collection, an ode to the tortured prose of Wilde and Rimbaud, added a refreshingly romantic note to the usually sexy Gucci guy.
Reading group contributor AlexJones has already pointed out how funny Plath can be, noting: "I was surprised at how readable it was – I expected it to be terribly gloomy and full of tortured prose.
Republicans claim that the administration will manipulate the process by inflating the population estimates in congressional districts that traditionally vote Democratic.The judicial panel had to wade through the tortured prose of the 1957 Census Act, which, according to the court, prohibits the use of statistical sampling for congressional reapportionment.
It is a relief to turn from this tortured evangelical prose to Pauline Chen's incandescent memoir.
Rebel, adventurer, a restless spirit who used both travel and the imagination as a prophylactic against pain, he was a tortured artist whose prose remains pure, vibrant and healing.
"Each minute you spend learning about 3d printing and 3d printers before you commit to buying one will save you a nerve or two in the long run," he writes in a bit of tortured but important prose.
Kraus was a famously tortured stylist, and most of his prose in this book is dead on arrival.
The reader is immediately struck by what Mulhall (2005, viii) calls the "tortured intensity of [Heidegger's] prose", although if the text is read in its original German it is possible to hear the vast number of what appear to be neologisms as attempts to reanimate the German language.
