Sentences with phrase «elegant prose»

And the most elegant prose stylist of the Victorian era had no time for lofty language if it was used as a brake on popular devotion.

«With elegant prose enlivened by shards of mean humor, MacDonald captures how hard it is to love and / or trust abroad or at home.»

Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Scribner), by an oncologist, researcher, and professor at Columbia University, which in elegant prose, informed by the author's broad knowledge and compassion, details our understanding since ancient times, of a dread disease.

In January, we lost Reynolds Price, the North Carolina man of letters whose elegant prose captured the youthful desires and complex feelings of men and women.

Arkansas native Levon Helm, the drummer for The Band, danced his last waltz on the same day that North Carolina writer Doris Betts, whose fiercely humorous and quietly elegant prose captured fraught relationships, headed west into the sharp teeth of death.

Hardinge's new novel is a fantastic work of horror without skimping on elegant prose.

Combining a stupendous depth of research with some of the most elegant prose ever written about finance, Bernstein chronicles the halting human march toward a better understanding of risk — and reminds us that, after centuries of progress, we still have a long way to go.

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.

When Reynolds Price passed away on January 20, 2011, we lost not only a writer whose elegant prose cadences surely grew out of his intimate acquaintance with the Gospels and Milton (whose work he taught over 40 years in one of Duke's most popular classes) but also the last great Southern man of letters.

Silvey's elegant prose touches on racism, adultry, truth and lies, human weakness, falling in love, trust, small - town boredom, cricket, coming of age, love of literature, hope and despair and long - kept secrets.

Eric seems most truthful when he recounts his daughter's reactions to events and people, and here Gaige's elegant prose shines in Eric's eccentric and hyper - intellectual mind as he describes this daughter that he adores and craves.

Written in consistently elegant prose, with memorable psychological acuity, Cloudland is both exciting and compelling and will keep readers turning pages energetically.»

[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.

This novel is filled with elegant prose, characters to love and to despise, humour and heartbreak, poignant moments and enough plot twists to keep the reader guessing.

Elegant prose?

Peter Hitchens's rhapsodic essay «In Praise of Borders» delights with its elegant prose and lucid commentary.

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.

Kazuo Ishiguro, the Japanese - born British novelist who in «The Remains of the Day,» «Never Let Me Go» and other novels captured memory's lasting pain and dangerous illusions in precise and elegant prose, won the Nobel Literature Prize.

Kirkus Reviews «Another winner in Kleypas» Ravenels series, with elegant prose, a fascinating heroine, and a Victorian London constructed with compelling historical detail.»

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.

Dr Temperance Brennan finds herself in a dangerous web that stretches far beyond Guatemala's borders in a powerful, page - turning book that combines riveting authenticity with witty, elegant prose.

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.

Literary fiction offers a world of engaging reading: elegant prose, compelling stories and characters, and thought - provoking explorations of universal themes.

With his probing curiosity, his dazzling research, his elegant prose and his deep commitment to biodiversity,...

In lush and elegant prose, Divakaruni has crafted a vivid and enduring dream, one that reveals hidden truths about the world we live in, and from which readers will be reluctant to wake.

Elegant prose and gently escalating action will leave readers gasping for breath at the tragic climax and moving conclusion.

Putting aside perennial favorites like A.S. Byatt's Possession or Kate Atkinson's Life After Life, which I return to again and again for their elegant prose and intriguing perspectives on the way the past and present intertwine, the following three groups of novels have recently moved me.

Over a 54 - year literary career, she has published a mere 14 books, which more often than not have been concise in length, as deftly pared as her spare, elegant prose.

In spare, elegant prose, Dillard traces the Maytrees» decades of loving and longing.

In Roxana Robinson's lucid and elegant prose, her characters» inner worlds open up to us, revealing private emotional cores that are familiar in their needs, their secrets, and their longings.

In spare, elegant prose, Dillard traces the lives of Toby and Lou Maytree.

In radiant, richly colored, iconic collages and spare, elegant prose, Collier and Giovanni celebrate the quiet courage of Rosa Parks.

The Gold Award is bestowed on books that we found to be perfect in their delivery of original content, meticulous development of unique characters in an organic and striking setting, innovative plot that supports a fresh theme, and elegant prose that transforms words into beautifully written books.

With elegant prose and delicious historical detail, Benjamin delivers a timely tale of female friendship — and the powerful duo who dared to dream beyond the narrow roles into which they'd been cast.

«In Donna Leon's elegant prose, the book is as engaging as its predecessors, but filled with much more than the usual pain.»