"prose" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- She published her first story at 14, and her prose and poems drew favorable notice.
- Chronicling the lives of working-class people, The Vanishing Moon was a critical success, and Coulson's prose, themes, and historical range drew comparisons with John Steinbeck, William Maxwell, and Russell Banks.
- One quality that's distinctive among writers of an experimental bent is his limpidity: his prose rarely draws attention to itself; most of the time, the reader is fully occupied imagining what is being recounted and described.
- Lafferty's quirky prose drew from traditional storytelling styles, largely from the Irish and Native American, and his shaggy-dog characters and tall tales are unique in science fiction.
- One is "Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung" (Knopf), an anthology of writings by the late rock critic Lester Bangs, whose kamikaze-like prose drew its ferocious energy from the music he celebrated.
- Murray, who has written about American culture in books like "Stomping the Blues" and "The Hero and the Blues," says his prose draws its sensibility from blues and jazz.
- Barbu's prose, in which the influence of neorealism has been noted, drew comparison to the works of Mateiu Caragiale, Tudor Arghezi, and Curzio Malaparte.
- But now the life of Mr. Barthelme, who has written 11 books and whose stylish prose has drawn comparisons to Ernest Hemingway, has taken a turn that could have come from his own pages.
- -and in straightforward prose, written mostly in the present tense (invisibly and expertly translated from the Danish by Anna Paterson), Jungersen draws us into this unhappy, claustrophobic environment.
- From Borders.com, one reader says that A Swift Pure Cry "uses Irish dialect and lyrical prose to draw the reader into Shell's world.
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