Or maybe there was, after all, something more to this murderer than his fancy prose style.

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Mr. RAYMOND STOCK (Writer and Translator): Well, he sort of invented the modern literary prose style in Arabic.

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My goal for Upside magazine was to marry a Dan Jenkins prose style with the subjects of technology startups and IPOs.

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To which she might have added: and your prose style.

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This prose style so excited her British agent, David Godwin, that, apparently on the strength of one reading of the manuscript, he hopped on a plane to India to speak to her.

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In its first incarnation, the story was a young-adult fiction by Michael Morpurgo written from the point of view of the horse, who turned out to have complex feelings and a decent prose style.

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The author's prose style is occasionally leaden.

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What is it about the distinctive prose and style of Joan Didion?

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In his brief, brilliant study "Nikolai Gogol, " Vladimir Nabokov accounts for Gogol's artistry through this and what he calls Gogol's "four dimensional" prose, a sinuous style that captures characters in their inner being.

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It took four months to debate and to draft, including two weeks to polish the prose, neat work done by a committee of style.

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Unlike standard biographies, this one reads like a prose version of a superbly rendered documentary, in the style of Ken Burns.

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