This book knows its audience: it has been written firmly in the register and vocabulary of contemporary online feminism.
Barnes's own prose, in books on Renoir, Cézanne, and Matisse, is, like Dewey's, clearly written, firmly reasoned, and numbingly dull.
At the top of the paper was drawn a triangle, and underneath was written firmly "To prove that Angle A is equal to Angle B".
But there is something to be said for treading the same ground over and over, for making sure that listeners have certain works, particularly those recently written, firmly in their ears.
Rattigan was one of the most successful British playwrights of the middle years of the last century, and wrote firmly in the tradition of the "well-made" play, drama that moves cleverly and deliberately, but with no great haste, through its unruffling paces.
Frowning, his hat on the back of his head, swaying from side to side with the motion of the car, occasionally sucking his pencil and trying to write firmly despite the bouncing of the train, humming experimentally, America's latter-day Bach will work the night through.
I may not be so appropriate, given "atheist" written firmly in my "beliefs" column.
It's written firmly within the black experience, but I don't think there's anything about that book and I think time has proven this to be true that has prevented people who are not black from reading it, from enjoying it, from inhaling it.
Written firmly tongue-in-cheek, (Wolcott, 1997a; Wolcott, 1997b) provides many great suggestions for poster and oral presentations.
A "social stigma" against most beans, Albala writes, "remains firmly in place from the time of the ancient Greeks up to the 20th century".
