His prose has the power of re-description, whereby we are made to notice something hitherto neglected.
Raimond Gaita's insights are original and his prose is as eloquent as it is affecting.
Mee appears to have understood this, his prose on the subject assuming a wistful tone.
Although Wilde is celebrated as the greatest natural talker of modern times, he edited his prose meticulously.
It could be that his prose is more forceful in the original--perhaps he's been unlucky with his translators.
Some will also be irritated by the show-offy flashiness of his prose and the extreme certainty of his predictions.
Simone de Beauvoir, an admirer of his prose, wrote nevertheless of Brasillach that certain words could be as murderous as gas chambers.
Thurber's childlike drawings may survive in popular memory more indelibly than his prose, and it is their very crudeness that makes them so disarming.
He has spawned legions of would-be acolytes (this writer included) who have been freed by his prose, but have yet to ever really match it.
Mystery aficionados compare his prose to Ross Macdonald's and Raymond Chandler's.
He expresses himself simply without being simplistic, and the purposefully slow rhythms of his prose almost command the reader to stop, think and, ultimately, listen.
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Certain characteristics of his prose -- hypersensitivity and constant rumination, or persistent contemplation -- reflect a pattern of temperament that some psychology researchers say connects mental illness, especially bipolar disorder and depression, with creativity.
Or maybe there was, after all, something more to this murderer than his fancy prose style.
His complex prose was not designed to penetrate the intellectual fog in which most people spend their lives.
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Yet his stark prose conveys action with the clarity of film.
Krugman, in his usual humble prose, makes two points in the column.
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Never politically correct, but at the same time never having to resort to profanities to punctuate his punchlines and prose, Phinn managed to entertain and delight throughout while at the same time making poignant observations on life and learning.
Ernest Hemingway is described standing up at his desk, grimly rewriting his terse, condensed prose some 15 times before getting it right.
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In this excellent book, as in his many others, the prose amply lives up to that aim.
He learned to speak Welsh as an adult and wrote prose in Welsh but his poetry in English.
Mr King lays out his arguments in accessible and engaging prose.
To clarify his own objection to Medicare's prose, Judge Lamberth included a footnote.
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Mr Gribbin's prose is confident, and his amusing asides include an explanation of the origins of soda water and the observation that the length of a French nobleman's title was, by and large, inversely proportional to his social standing.
Also a son's ode to his mother, and an example of how prose can be as evocative as poetry.
Hemingway still stands as a model for emphatic prose, so much so that his spirit has been summoned as a guide to the age of Twitter.
For Obama, according to the UK's Independent, the challenge in office will be to strike a balance between the "poetry" of his campaign for election and the tough "prose" of government.
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