Sentences with phrase «prose paints their worlds»

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The setting is an imaginary world that will excite readers, brilliantly painted in breathtaking prose and vivid descriptions.

Building a book - length argument around his contention that «the seventeenth century is the moment when one world - view was displaced by another because the scientific displaced that of faith,» Grayling paints a picture of astronomers, mathematicians, medical doctors, and even alchemists often reaching conclusions that even they dearly hoped weren't true — because the answers meant opposing Christian doctrine, unwise if you wanted to keep your job, freedom or head... To my ear, though, the tone of the Grayling's prose is rather flat — think «textbook» and you've pretty much got it — so many of these unexpected sidelights are not presented as compellingly or dramatically as one might hope.

Holzer's recent use of text ranges from silk - screened paintings of declassified government memoranda detailing prisoner abuse to poetry and prose in a sixty - five - foot - wide wall of light in the lobby of 7 World Trade Center, New York.