Sentences with phrase «dense prose»

Since the casebook method of legal instruction was invented in the early 19th Century, lawyers have learned a «bastardized Asiatic style» (Garner's term) by adopting the style of antiquated opinions found in law - school casebooks, which buried legal concepts in sprawling, dense prose, and legal jargon.

Thus we see contracts written today with obsolete tense sequences (e.g. «when the purchaser shall have done X») and many layers of compound clauses, and subjects of sentences separated from their objects by lines of dense prose.

In staking this heresy, Mellinkoff debunked the claim that legal precision requires obscure, dense prose, calling that claim «spurious.»

The problem, of course, is that the (relatively) action - packed comics versions of The Last of the Mohicans or Gulliver's Travels are a lot more palatable to a ten - year - old than the dense prose of James Fenimore Cooper or the 18th - century satire of Jonathan Swift.

«Inherent Vice» is the first time that Pynchon's elaborately dense prose has made it to the screen, and for good reason.

Improbably, and with a giddy - making «WTF,» the dense prose of author Thomas Pynchon has finally made it to the big screen.

In accessible though often dense prose, Bonnan conveys a huge amount of frequently fascinating detail that will make his book a gold mine for students, although the casual reader may find some of it hard going.

In the thicket of Przywara's dense prose, it can be hard to discern what exactly any analogy is, let alone the analogy of being.

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Formally, these poems range from the free - verse compositions common in much contemporary poetry to «prose poems»: short, verbally dense, and compressed paragraphs.

In clear, idiomatic prose, deployed for both scholars and lay readers in fourteen dense but short and readable chapters, Jaki uses Aristotle's fundamental doctrine of noncontradiction to give a classic but also contemporary defense of the inescapably metaphysical character of will, mind, cognition, reason, and especially of language itself.

In coherent prose, it articulates and connects fundamental ideas in science without technical vocabulary and dense detail.

Sarris» prose was dense, balanced, aphoristic, alliterative; he had taken more from the French than just the politique des auteurs.

This book — short, dense, and likely to be particularly prized by those who love tables full of statistics, though the prose is very clear — is an important contribution to the growing collection of high - quality studies finding that greater accountability, autonomy, and choice do, indeed, make for a better education system and greater student learning.

Works from the 19th century can be difficult to read due to dense, repetitive prose and the repulsive attitudes of the time.

I found the prose to be so dense that I had to fully pay attention While lovely, complex writing is not a problem it does not make for an easy «skimable» beach read.

MAFI: How I choose to tell a story has everything to do with the story itself; Furthermore and Whichwood are so dense with magic that it felt right for the prose to be heavy with that same spirit.

Through lucid, luscious prose, Carlo Rovelli achieves the seemingly impossible in this slim distillation of dense science by delighting cosmology - obsessed and non-specialized readers alike.

The book's dense and inspired prose has earned Cohen comparisons to Thomas Pynchon and David Foster Wallace.

While such dense scientific prose is not as photogenic as a picture of a weather station in a parking lot, the fact is that science has thoroughly picked over this red herring.

Errors are harder to find in dense and convoluted prose.