Sentences with phrase «through prose»

After your third draft, it's essential that you hire a line editor or copy editor to go through your prose with a fine - tooth comb.

As you pull together the proposal, you'll want to run a fine - tooth comb through the prose of those initial chapters.

He embraces pop culture extensively in his writing and through his prose.

A character - portrait novel in the full definition of that type — which means as meticulous in detail and as sound in psychological understanding as a biography — Irishman Tóibín's latest rich novel, following the provocative Testament of Mary (2012), is self - assured in its authenticity, daring in the male author's presumption of inhabiting a female protagonist, and all this is achieved through prose at once alive and understated.

«When this opportunity first arose, we knew Scholastic would be the perfect home for expanding the stories and world of Riverdale through prose novels and other exciting formats.

While The Driest Season is not perfect, it manages to be an affecting novel because of how it interprets the grieving process through prose and finds hope and goodness in a world that can all too often appear exhaustingly bleak.

Unfolding through prose both tense and vibrant, Visitation Street races along as it unravels the mystery of June's fate, simultaneously begging for every word to be savored.

And this data is invaluable to those wrestling with how best to express themselves through prose.

Dark, yes, and with moments of heart - thumping tension so great it makes you skip through prose you know demands attention just because you want to find out what is happening.

Not exact matches

Kirsten Green, who invested in Prose through Forerunner Ventures, said that this fits here investment thesis of «micropersonalization.»

Dramatizing the trauma of expulsion from Paradise, Maine sometimes employs the cadences of the Old Testament («The sun rises and sets and does not change») and sometimes the concise, allusive conjunction of high and low that characterizes modern prose (as in the Babel image, or when Eve reflects on their vicissitudes «ever since their departure from the Garden to fight their way through this deathtrap called Creation»).

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.

Her clear, balanced prose cut through any subject she approached with classical severity.

Anyone today who struggles through Kaplan's ponderous prose setting forth such banal and simplistic propositions as that Judaism is a «civilization» rather than a «religion,» that American Jews live in «two civilizations,» that the Jewish religious system is a collection of folkways, and that God is an idea rather than a personality must wonder what all the fuss is about.

With gentle and clear prose, Hendershott leads the reader through the history of the abortion movement, examining the revolutions that allowed for Roe and how the party of the little guy became the party killing the little guy.

For one thing, Martin's graceful prose, deep religious sensibilities, and fair - mindedness shine through the tale.

On this topic, he has been justly unsettling his readers for decades through thousands of pages of poetry, fiction, and prose.

He had been piercing through the noble prose to the Greek behind.

SI's rebuilt and relaunched digital archive is a journey through more than 60 years of sports history and a testament to the power of 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.

For some, these flashes of promise will have to suffice, as the continent, painted in Perry's prose, leaves little space for hope to squeeze through.

This year, he pushed through aggressive gun - control limits, raised the minimum wage by nearly two bucks, and extended a tax surcharge on millionaires, all the while wrapping up the budget before Easter, which used to be about as common in Albany as kudzu.1 It was his father who famously said (to this magazine, in 1985) that «you campaign in poetry, you govern in prose.»

In frank and poignant prose, Elsayed recounts his tightrope walk through the U.S. immigration system and his improbable ascent into the academic stratosphere before crashing and burning.

If committee members can get the gist of what you're saying from a figure without wading through your impenetrable prose, your odds of getting interviewed shoot up.

During the day, I pound away at my keyboard — writing prose, sending e-mail, surfing through my usual routine of Web sites.

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By appropriating various passages from Hansen's expressive prose, the film somehow successfully captures the historic aspects of the story — as if it were a legend the audience should continue to pass down through generations — while simultaneously exposing the specious presentation of the tale through sheer excess.

That the quartet get there through E.L. James» tortured pop - erotica prose is pretty silly, but at least the characters have some perspective on the questionable quality of the «50 Shades» trilogy, and we don't have to delve too deeply into the world of Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey's red room.

Every Thing Will Be Fine is a critic's worst nightmare, which is to say that it's really goddamn boring — the kind of boring that is tough to write about, and which inevitably threatens to bring out everyone's inner hack, cycling through synonyms to keep the prose lively («dull,» «tedious,» «stultifying,» etc.), all the while fighting the urge to just start nitpicking things that might be endearing in a better film.

She offered up this verbal blurb as an endorsement — the prose is so sharp it can cause papercuts — but at the time, I wasn't looking to clomp through stinging nettles for pleasure.

Sifting through the several thousand articles on the site, a reader can't help but feel nostalgic for the days when Rosenbaum was producing his lucid, erudite prose on a regular basis.

A.O. Scott is one of the few film critics working today whose fuller personality comes through in their prose.

That it gets there through E.L. James» tortured pop - erotica prose is pretty silly, but at least the characters have some perspective on the questionable quality of the «50 Shades» trilogy, and we don't have to delve too deeply into the world of Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey's red room.

Today, though, I wanted to give you a quick head's up on some terrific iPod beach fodder to fill some of those summer hours that you won't spend slogging through my stilted prose.

Rothman slashes through the veritable jungle of data and commentary surrounding the new standards to give us — in terse but highly accessible prose — a set of key principles that drive both the math and ELA standards and the early attempts to implement them.

Through shimmering prose and a pointedly intimate narrative, Rothman - Zecher has written a powerful, passionate but even - handed criticism of the ultimately futile Israeli - Palestinian conflict where both sides only stand to lose.

From the shooting of Crispus Attucks to the inauguration of President Barack Obama, 28 moments in black history are celebrated through poetry, prose, and vivid illustrations.

Michael Connelly's public praise made me pick this up, but the sharp smart prose and the twisted world view kept me reading, through this first novel and the two that follow.

As Elsie travels through Paris and Sri Lanka, her struggle to figure out her path in life is portrayed in starkly honest and frank prose, like these musings from one of her early meditation sessions:

In BookPage, reviewer Jillian Quint writes, «Erdrich is a muscular and fearless writer, and she explores her characters with both compassion and criticism and through lyrical and visceral prose.»

And after writing thousands of pages of prose, too, I find that writing is a matter of both strenuous effort and a certain ease acquired through practice, devotion, and a whole lot of sweat.

It is a thought - provoking work of dedication, written in assured, confident prose that's worth persevering through, particularly for readers who enjoy learning about history and the natural world through character and storytelling.

Through [her] prose we feel the loneliness of Christina and the despair and worry of Andrew, who is trying to come to terms with his desire to produce great art, and to stay true to his vision (Terye B).

The prose is tight, the dialogue sharp and there's a satirical streak weaving through it (Nnedi brilliantly lampoons governmental corruption and inertia, for example).

By outlining these basic plot points, and working through them (loosely, of course), figuring out where and when they should occur (ie: solidifying the character's basic trajectory, or arc) my mind was then freed up to concentrate on other things — like fleshing out the rest of the story, and the creation of poetic prose.

And to do it in a more personal and kind way — through poetry and prose that is honest and understandable — that reveals my fears, challenges, and ultimately my healing.

Skip through yours to glean some shining examples of prose, some fantastic phrases that evoke the feeling of your book.

Prose has its own advantages, and one of those is that it can be much more immersive than comics through the use of sensory details.

It can be transcendental, and I believe can put one in touch with a deeper part of ourselves only reached through artistic meditation — what some might call the creative process, that joy of discovery wherein you read your prose a few months after writing it and think, crap, did I really write that?

When picking a copyeditor, I got several recommendations from the Kindle Boards, requested sample edits, and went with Anne because she did solid work and seemed to «get» my prose — something not to be underestimated when a copyeditor is going through and trying to remove every sentence that starts with «But».