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While I appreciate the great oratory skills of those who communicate using wonderful word pictures, or the academics who can wax eloquent while always using the best form of prose, I prefer my business communication to be quick and dirty.
FORBES: The Facts Ma'am - Just The Facts
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Bill Buckley is one of the very best writers of English prose we have in America, or anywhere else the English language holds sway.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy
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Mr Snyder's book is revisionist history of the best kind: in spare, closely argued prose, with meticulous use of statistics, he makes the reader rethink some of the best-known episodes in Europe's modern history.
ECONOMIST: How Stalin and Hitler enabled each other��s crimes
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Part of what makes Mr Jones so angry and, as with all the best polemics, a luminous anger backlights his prose is that this sneering and humiliation is inflicted by the well-off on those who have the least.
ECONOMIST: Unfairly, by its snobbish fellow citizens
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These lines from Leviathan - Hobbes' best-known work and a masterpiece of English prose - have been read as meaning that humans are by nature violent animals.
BBC: A Point of View: A time when violence is normal
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Some of the best bits of the book are where he repeats the fragments in the fractured vivid prose of those expressing themselves with great urgency but little education.
ECONOMIST: Unlocking the books in a prison library
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At her best, Ms Sobel blends together anecdote, science and history in a confection of elegant prose.
ECONOMIST: Twirls and swirls from outer space
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What you know in prose is often what you discover in the course of writing it, as in the best of conversations with a friend as if you and the reader do the discovering together.
WSJ: Word Craft: Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd on Good Prose
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In the best traditions of his profession he enlightened and engaged readers on a wide array of topics in clear, vivid prose.
WSJ: Writer Michael J. Ybarra, 45, Is Killed Near Yosemite