Dispelling the myth that you cannot get published without writing wordy, impersonal prose, Sword shows how much journal editors and readers welcome work that avoids excessive jargon and abstraction.
Grin's frequently wordy and purple Russian prose can become even more so in the translator's hands.
There's a lucidity to Bechdel's work that in certain ways (economy, concision, metaphor) bears more resemblance to poetry than to the dense, wordy introspection of most prose memoirs.
But most of the bad writing seems faux-old-fashioned in a stilted, wordy, strenuously highfalutin way — Restoration Hardware prose.
Overall, this book is educational and entertaining, but the unevenness of the writing is truly disappointing: in places, the prose is repetitive, excessively wordy or overly personal, tripping over that fine line between being charming and being a wee bit too revealing.
This is technically verse, but it feels wordier and less shapely than the prose version that Tagore offered in "Gitanjali": Send thy angry storm, dark with death, if it is thy wish, and with lashes of lightning startle the sky from end to end.
At the same time, Mr. Duffy's hyperbolic prose style — not quite David Foster Wallace, but still wordy — grows on you.
FIERY FURNACES This brother-and-sister duo is possibly the wordiest band in rock — they just bleed extra-long prose poems — and yet somehow they manage charisma.
It's a wordy play, but Don Carleton's new version, using verse for the young lovers and prose for the bourgeois elders, is vividly speakable and pleasantly punny (at one point, Falk cries: "goodnight, sweet chintz").
Mankell's prose is as blunt and pragmatic as his hero, and the often crudely expository tone isn't enhanced by the wordy translation.
