Sentences with phrase «of beautiful prose»

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He needs a great delivery, beautiful prose, and a healthy mix of policy innovation.

On the whole, Maritain wrote a beautiful prose, a prose that reaches the heart and the imagination more than that of most philosophers, even while manifesting a Thomist love of exquisite clarity, particularly in the making of distinctions.

It must be said that it is a book whose rhetoric is flawed, and one finds it more than a little strange that the beautiful precision and economy that generally mark his prose in his work for The New Yorker and in his major books at so many points in his latest work give way to a profusion of jargon and a bloatedness of syntax that disfigure the whole.

Pollan amazes me again and again, not just with his often beautiful prose (the kind of writing where you stop and reread a passage just for the pleasure of it) but with his ingenious way of looking at things, such as exploring how a corn plant manipulates humans, rather than the other way around.

In practice, the justice secretary was the canary down the mine of Westminster opinion, setting out in beautiful prose the reasons for his dramatic breach with Cameron.

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.

In beautiful prose, Plus One explores the possibility we all have of finding connection and peace in the lives we are living.

This happened once before when Willa Cather's exacting prose (on heartbreaking / beautiful narratives of life on the prairie) was entirely underrated and overshadowed by her male contemporaries!!

The film owes a debt to the immaculate prose of Patricia Highsmith's 1952 source novel — not to mention her social daring in writing a sophisticated and beautiful novel of love between two women at a time when that love was defined legally and morally as «obscene».

You'll be left wanting more of his heartbreakingly beautiful prose.

Filled with Bass's hallmark lean and beautiful prose, they are further proof of his mastery of the short fiction form.

The horrors of the Civil War are also made immediately felt through the characters» lives in quiet but such graphic prose that it made me feel I was understanding it for the first time as a fellow human being rather than a student of history... One beautiful passage at the end of the book stays with me and seems particularly relevant, perhaps, to our current political moment: «So much blood has been spilled that redemption may be out of reach in the end.

And in beautiful prose, Miller sheds light on her complicated yet loving relationship with her parents that has thrived in spite of the odds.

«Akpan's prose is beautiful and his stories are insightful and revealing, made even more harrowing because all the horror — and there is much — is seen through the eyes of children.»

Flowing, beautiful prose that is devoid of emotion, plot or characterization?

Stedman has crafted a beautiful story: an original plot filled with dilemmas that will have the reader contemplating long after the last page; luminous prose that is marvellously descriptive of the Western Australian landscape and effectively conveys the post-war atmosphere; and characters with depth and appeal whose situations evoke empathy (only the most hard - hearted reader will finish this book without a tear shed).

The prose may be beautiful, but as a Dutch - born Caucasian living in Australia with a limited experience of the Negro, I found it difficult to relate to this book.

Through the beautiful prose of his narration, we join Jason in boyish adventures and coming - of - age rituals (first cigarette, initiation rites, first kiss), and we learn of his ambitions (poetry, forestry) and his anxieties (stammering, the Falklands war, his parents» relationship, girls).

«Robinson's prose is beautiful, shimmering and precise; the revelations are subtle but never muted when they come, and the careful telling carries the breath of suspense....

- Geraldine Brooks, author of The Secret Chord «From afar, this novel is so beautiful, the prose so clear and vivid, that it seems effortless; on closer examination, one sees the rich thematic palette Dominic Smith has used.

Some of the prose is truly beautiful: Mitchell manages to be quite lyrical about clouds and weather; there are also several charming illustrations.

The Pulitzer Prize - winning author — «an immensely gifted writer and a magical prose stylist» (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times)-- offers his first major work of nonfiction, an autobiographical narrative as inventive, beautiful, and powerful as his acclaimed, award - winning fiction.

Rick Bass's new collection contains a broad range of characters and settings: Filled with Bass's hallmark lean and beautiful prose, they are further proof of his mastery of the short fiction form.

This is one of those wonderful family stories with beautiful prose and unforgettable characters.

I love the LOTR books and there are no words I can use to describe the beauty of the prose and the beautiful, absolutely stupendous wordplay that's been used to create life like imagery.

Nayomi Munaweera's prose is so incredibly beautiful that one can visually be transported to stand under the shade of the mango tree or feel the rolling waves of the ocean under your feet.

Readers looking for beautiful prose will love his debut, a contemporary reimagining of the tale of Apollo and Daphne.

However, Hannah's beautiful prose portrays the splendor and ruggedness of a world we know too little about.

BookPage has praised Franklin's «mastery of evocative language» and «taut and beautiful» prose, and I think you'll find that's the case in this excerpt.

Clearly influenced by the likes of David Gemmell and Bernard Cornwell, Gwynne's prose is as economic as it is brutally beautiful.

She's a writer because beautiful prose seduces her and existential angst continues to plague her despite such preoccupations having gone out of fashion.

But those of us who have been around Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers know that's true — and also know that Kevin has long turned out beautiful stories with clear - eyed prose.

John — Even literary fiction should have some conflict, so even beautiful prose should show some hint of a story to come.

Skipping around in time, knitting together the different points of view with astonishing dexterity and beautiful prose, Maggie O'Farrell has created a story of love and family relationships that is reminiscent of the very best of Edna O'Brien and Mary Gordon.

The Rainbow Bridge is a work of poetic prose that describes a beautiful, imaginary place where our pets wait for us when it is our turn to leave this life.

A compilation of visual poetry from a self - declared poet who willfully takes risks and carries through with beautiful prose into the urban language.

His laboratory is an incubator of prose, where his own writing, avid reading and decades of renderings on paper, watercolor and canvases come together to form a beautiful equation.

It was such a beautiful piece of prose, and I thought it would be wasted if it were amongst all of this academic text.

Like we said, that took 211 pages of beautiful typeset and illustrated prose.

In beautiful prose, she weaves the story of her own pregnancy into a scientific report on the critical moments of those nine months, when developing fetuses are most sensitive to chemical exposures.

You may remember from our discussion about the velocity of money, when I wrote in beautiful prose that infinite banking is already happening all over the world under the radar.