Sentences with phrase «with elegant prose»
«With elegant prose enlivened by shards of mean humor, MacDonald captures how hard it is to love and / or trust abroad or at home.»
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With the elegant prose of Frederick Busch and the Irish sensibility of William Trevor, Lynch masterfully creates a world where mirage and apparition are commonplace, where people searching for connection and old comforts find them both near at hand and oddly out of reach.
Kirkus Reviews «Another winner in Kleypas» Ravenels series, with elegant prose, a fascinating heroine, and a Victorian London constructed with compelling historical detail.»
Peter Hitchens's rhapsodic essay «In Praise of Borders» delights with its elegant prose and lucid commentary.
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Gerrish has moved from the University of Chicago, where he held the Nuveen Professorship (whose previous occupants had been Paul Tillich and Paul Ricoeur) to Union Seminary in Richmond, where he is Distinguished Service Professor of Theology His many publications on Reformation and 19th - century theology (above all, on Calvin and Schleiermacher) are models of rich scholarship, elegant prose and reflection on the history of theology with an eye to how it matters for church life today.
She makes a case for the importance of dreaming and equips readers with the reflective fodder to identify their dreams and bring them to fruition via elegant prose, insightful questions, community - driven stories, and Johnson's own intriguing personal history.
With elegant, evocative prose and a cast of unforgettable characters, debut author Kristin Cashore creates a mesmerizing world, a death - defying adventure, and a heart - racing romance that will consume you, hold you captive, and leave you wanting more.
The prose is simple but elegant, the book very readable, I found it so much so that I actually checked out one of her previous books when I was half finished with this one.
An elegant conjurer of interconnected tales, a genre - bending daredevil, and master prose stylist, David Mitchell's new novel, The Bone Clocks, crackles with invention and wit.
I'm not surprised Almond was honored with this prestigious award, as he's been called «one of the finest writers in the world of children's literature, a writer of uncommon vision and elegant prose» in our own pages.
With his probing curiosity, his dazzling research, his elegant prose and his deep commitment to biodiversity,...
A story spanning decades and two continents, The Lowland explores the power of family and memory with Lahiri's «elegant, gently understated prose.»
«Nelson resists genre categories with elegant, stylistic prose... [an] ambitious psychological thriller.»
«In Donna Leon's elegant prose, the book is as engaging as its predecessors, but filled with much more than the usual pain.»
[1] That said, there's a long section of Kelly's latest book explaining, in more elegant prose than mine of course, that it may well be that only 51 % of the changes technology bring are positive, but that with the effect of compounding, the improvements are massive in the long run.