Sentences with phrase «like prose»

Here is a Beckett - like prose poem condensing existence to its grim essentials.

However, if you feel like your prose could use some work, or if you're just starting out, I would recommend going to a critique group and have them pinpoint places for improvement, rather than pay for line editing.

NS: People who think flash fiction is like prose poetry have not read enough flash fiction.

I do not recommend investing in a premium theme like Prose until you own your own domain and are self - hosted.

Pretty good, I like his prose.

However, if you feel like your prose could use some work, or if you're just starting out, I would recommend going to a critique group and have them help pinpoint places for improvement, rather than pay for line editing.

I got the sense that the Community Schools initiative, much like PROSE, is a restricted and micromanaged venture, where growth and innovation are discussed, but not allowed to breathe.

Marketing aside, Ready Player One also has the disadvantage of being adapted from Ernest Cline's dreadful novel, which reads less like prose and more like a laundry list of pop culture references colliding into each other.

His version is like prose while Takashi Miike's 2011 «Ichimei» is like haiku with images and atmosphere creating a mood.

Not exact matches

It will look for phrases like «was instructed» that slow down your prose and then offer to make a correction.

Look for President Obama to take a stroll on Saturday, most likely with his daughters and most likely to some locally owned bookstore like DC's Politics and Prose, to buy a few items with a credit card that will be discreetly handed to him by a helpful aide.

Like a once bright green aspen turning to subtle shades of yellow then red in the Colorado fall, investors» impressions of «stocks for the long run» or any run have mellowed as well,» Gross (left) wrote in the flowery prose that has become his trademark.

While competitors like Function of Beauty offer custom products based on an online quiz, Prose takes it one step further by getting stylists involved.

Like biblical Hebrew, Atwood's witty prose is thick with double entendre and allusion, including hidden puns whose meanings dawn on us only later, and outrageous jokes that don't so much dawn as «bomb» (one of the book's metaphors and an effect of Atwood's powerfully laconic style)

All those hours spent reading by dim firelight the same book over and over (the way little children still like to be read to) were to contribute to Lincoln's being the foremost master of prose among our Presidents.

The major problem in editing a journal of ideas like First Things is that most of our contributors are academics, and many academics, not to put too fine a point on it, write barbaric prose.

Bits of the prose, like «I love you to pieces, distraction, etc.» from Franny's letter to her boyfriend Lane, rattled about in my adolescent head for weeks, despite the fact that the sentiment in the phrase is revealed to be utterly ingenuous.

We didn't understand that when we read ancient Hebrew prose poems (like Genesis 1), wisdom literature (like Proverbs), or apocalyptic literature (like Revelation) as if they were science textbooks, we were actually obscuring their meaning.»

The stories and prose read like a narrative, but the book is quite informational as it explains what has happened to the Bible in modern America.

Dugin's urgent prose can sound like a combination of Chairman Mao and Pope Pius IX.

It is instead probably because, like the rest of the reading world, pastors, theologians and engaged laypersons rarely read poetry — maybe because it requires a different set of skills from reading prose, maybe because these readers choose not to embrace the indirection of metaphor, and maybe also because they have read examples of bad religious poetry that make the whole endeavor seem like a waste of time.

As a student of literature, I'd like to say that it is Austen's subtle satire, masterful character development, and nuanced prose that draws me to her romantic comedies... but at the end of the day, it's probably just the girly thrill of seeing who ends up marrying whom.

It's a nice line of prose, it sounds like a unifying statement, but it is inherently untrue.

People who knew him say the rich prose of that work, so unlike the earlier spareness, is most like Camus's living voice.

But all of this is couched in prose clearly meant to be impish and not bitter, written with a twinkle in the eye, from a man who likes to tweak the powerful, not antagonize them.

Given the clarity and power of its prose, Geertz's essay was important in its own right; nevertheless, it entered an ongoing stream of theoretical discourse in the sociology of religion, and, like any such contribution, its significance lay not only in what it said but also in what others read into it.

It looks like you're very hesitant about the crumble and the filling, which I know isn't the case from reading the (always delightful) prose.

Gierach's Trout Bum blew like a Rocky Mountain high through the stuffy boardrooms of fly - fishing prose two years ago, establishing him as the Angling Aphorist of the»80s.

Vecsey's clear - eyed prose hints at nostalgia without becoming maudlin as he presents Musial as the quintessential Eisenhower - era star: the approachable guy next door, not at all like the petulant Ted Williams or the icy Joe DiMaggio.

Jan 04,2016... Michael Tobin subscribes to the theory that good prose, like good poetry, deserves to be read aloud...

The message that PROSE teachers delivered, he said, was: «We are moving our school system forward, and we would like your support.»

In clear - eyed prose Sagan reveals a jewel - like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space.

In a story overseen by an editor named Whittaker Chambers, the magazine noted with its typical prose from the period: «[T] here will be dimly discernible, to those who are interested in cause & effect in history, the features of a shy, almost saintly, childlike little man with the soft brown eyes, the drooping facial lines of a world - weary hound, and hair like an aurora borealis... Albert Einstein did not work directly on the atom bomb.

The prose reads like a mix of boilerplate statutory code and scenes from an Ian Fleming novel: «SECTION IV A jury will meet on a hidden, off - world island, owned and maintained by Linden Lab.

Write it in fairly short prose, but make sure you include their keywords; make it sound like something they will want to read.

Johnson's mix of the personal, the erudite and crystalline prose is — like the pull of gravity (see beautiful experiment number 1)-- an irresistible force.

His prose style is superb, more redolent of 18th - century essayists like Swift than what his contemporary peers customarily serve up.

It sounds like a cheap romance novel, but this line is actually lifted from quite a different type of prose: a neuroscience study.

I really like the meaning of the dragonfly as a SpiritAnimal - I feel that it's very fitting:] xo Deborah Coffee, Prose, and Pretty Clothes

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There are obvious limitations to the written word: On the page, it'd be difficult to indicate the same snippet of Vivaldi playing in Dr. Larry's operating theatre and during Cindy's body scan (in both scenarios, women are being wilfully artificialized) without looking like a dilettante — yet nothing about Crichton's pedantic prose suggests he is capable of such a poignant motif.

Like Michael Crichton and Nicholas Meyer — and unlike fellow horror authors Stephen King (Maximum Overdrive), John Farris (Dear, Dead Delilah) and William Peter Blatty (The Ninth Configuration)-- Clive Barker's career move from novelist to director is distinguished not only by a more - than - competent technical job but by a carry - over of the distinctive voice of his prose work.

Having thrived and evolved for eight consecutive decades in the public imagination - in prose and graphics, on the big screen and small, in games and properties of all kinds - Conan's exploits in the Hyborian Age now come alive like never before in a colossal 3D action - adventure film.

It becomes his voice over — spoken like a hard - boiled film noir commentary with bouts of Neruda's humanist prose sprinkled throughout — and perspective that overtakes the film.

It's hard to believe that any film that starts so promisingly, with Ryan Phillippe full - on punching Sarah Silverman in the mouth, can go so far downhill, but despite its gonzo and engaging opening half hour, the film soon sinks under its own weight, hampered by thin characterization, ludicrous overplotting and a director way, way too much in love with the prose on the page to bother trying to make it sound like dialogue from a human mouth.

Granted, he appears in the film's finest sequence; a muscular interrogation which offers up the single piece of Owen's prose with any anxiety and definition, but he soon vanishes like a flash in the pan.

Enduring Love is like cinematic prose, detailing how an obsession with a single concept can lead to disaster.

Gone is the stilted prose of Natalie Portman and Hayden Christensen; these actors look like they actually want to be there.

She responded with a raucous and vibrant prose poem on the exhilaration of filmmaking as a process, as well as what it was like to sit in the audience of the gala presentation at the film's Toronto Film Festival premiere.

Like Stephen King needs an editor to cut down on his overlong prose (especially on his latest novels), Shyamalan needs a co-author to rein in his worst instincts.