Sentences with phrase «such beautiful prose»

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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.

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.

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

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