Sentences with phrase «simple prose»

Through simple prose and vivid illustrations, this heart - warming book encourages positive behaviour as children see how rewarding it is to express daily kindness, appreciation, and love.

Just three paras of simple prose will do

These topics are all described in simple prose — there are no mathematics or model expositions, few acronyms and little jargon, etc..

-- The Times (UK) «This impressive debut creates, in deceptively simple prose, a portrait of a marriage in crisis in a deeply patriarchal and oppressive society.»

Kent Haruf is a master of understatement, of spare, hauntingly simple prose that becomes even more powerful and affecting when read aloud.

With Margaret Drabble's characteristic wit and deceptively simple prose, The Dark Flood Rises enthralls, entertains, and asks existential questions in equal measure.

- London Evening Standard (UK) «Pure, simple prose....

He tells in simple prose a complicated and exotic story, filled as it is with zemindars, lakhs, and begams.

In clear, simple prose, Belsky and Gilovich explain some of the most common quirks that cause people to make foolish financial decisions.

Not exact matches

The reading pleasure that results from this conversation — different for different readers — is not merely the simple pleasure of hearing a good story, but the complex pleasures of strong feelings — sometimes violent disagreement, sometimes frustration and sometimes a euphoric recognition, produced by Augustine's text, of the «beauty so ancient and so new,» to which Augustine points through the beauty of his prose.

So it is perhaps a very Franciscan thing to offer a fresh and rather humble approach: a cheerful paperback, readable by anyone and everyone, written in simple direct prose.

It's easy to maneuver around in, your prose is articulate, and your recipes are simple to read.

Her vividly sensual prose may make the novel a production designer's dream — and given what we've seen of the film thus far, it seems a likely awards contender in the design categories — but there should be more at play here than simple visual splendor.

«There is more to admire here than a simple economy of form and content, and the spareness of Ramsay's approach is no mere approximation of Ames» hard - boiled prose.

Perhaps inevitably, the author's unique manner of prose, animal point - of - view, and comments on violence and civilization get lost in favor of a somewhat simple but plenty poignant human - driven story.

But there is more to admire here than a simple economy of form and content, and the spareness of Ramsay's approach is no mere approximation of Ames» hard - boiled prose.

With similarly impenetrable and convoluted prose, the union's report clearly showed how collective bargaining trumped the simple goal of providing a meaningful increase in instructional time.

The prose is remarkably simple, with underpinnings of delicious dry humor.»

His simple and lyrical prose perfectly captures the innocence of youth and then, later, the loss of it.

According to our reviewer, each chapter is «told in simple, appealing prose that feels like a phone conversation with a good friend.»

The prose is simple but elegant, the book very readable, I found it so much so that I actually checked out one of her previous books when I was half finished with this one.

Bui's prose is carefully crafted, and her brushstrokes are similarly spare and simple, rendered in a muted palette of black, white and burgundy.

Carter's clean and eloquent prose evokes a time when the cycles of life were predictable and simple and the rules were heartbreaking and complex.

A more simple option may be to simply break up paragraphs if it's logical (for example, a line of dialogue broken off from a chunk of prose), or combine them (if dialogue is spoken by a character in direct relation to the chunk of prose).

Dual narration (one in simple, cumulative text and the other in more detailed prose) recounts how Japanese American Gordon Sato realized a way to grow mangrove trees along the shore of Eritrea in Africa.

Judged against Grisham's fictional works, The Innocent Man compares well, his prose style is tight and fast - paced, the extremely large cast of characters are sketched succinctly and courtroom legalities are explained in a style simple enough for the layman to follow, and we're left in little doubt about who are the good guys and who are the bad....

These are regular, ordinary sort of elemental characters and I think they're presented sort of directly and I wanted the prose to be kind of simple and direct.

The prose itself is simple and beautiful.

The prose is clear, simple and authentic and, most importantly, is clearly touching the hearts of young readers as you can see by the reader reviews posted at BookBrowse.

It's a simple book, suitable for young preschoolers, yet full of understated depth in both prose and illustrations.

The prose is simple and agile, the characters of many different types, and I did find myself rooting for a few that became my favorites.

Rock's prose is simple in a way that requires considerable sophistication.

So, the essay is an attempt at conveying one's ideas on a particular topic in simple, clear prose, which is literary and idiomatic.

I worked with the text, changing it from prose to verse for a simpler and younger approach, and did a dummy to meet the need for «visualization.»

By a simple reformatting of the descriptions - one into prose, the other into poetry - without changing any of the words, she reveals the poetry and romanticism underlying the desiccated language of weather reportage.

If it is as simple as your 13 steps suggest, it should be no problem refining the prose and letting peer review look for the errors.

Thanks to BriefCatch, I employ my worst writing crutches less often and use more of the simple, forceful prose favored by top legal writers.»

Utilize simple fonts and write in bullet points rather than flowing prose.