prose

Few critics praised Archer's prose style, his sense of humour, or the emotional depth of his characters.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

“Think of them as a cross between a lentil and a velociraptor,” the National Society of Professional Surveyors, a group not normally known for purple prose, warns on its website.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

Writing in newspaper Canard Enchaine, Fabrice Colin also criticised the formulaic sentence structure and said he "vainly looked for a unique voice" in the prose.

From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026

Saramago captures the rambling reversals of Senhor José’s thoughts with an unconventional prose style.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

According to this theory, opaque prose is a deliberate choice.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

It contains drawings and proses which have nothing but a formal, not an illustrative or explanatory, relation to each other.

From Time Magazine Archive

He adopted an entirely new style of versification and music, derived from popular songs; and he and his successors in 34the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries wrote various proses for the Christmas festival.

From Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Clement A. Miles

Never mind how the pedagogue proses,   You want not antiquity's stamp; A lip, that such fragrance discloses,   Oh! never should smell of the lamp.

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti

Macallester next proses endlessly on the alleged Jesuit connection with Damien’s attack on Lous XV., and insists that the Jesuits, nobody knows why, meant to assassinate Prince Charles. 

From Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles by Andrew Lang

Here and there a preacher thunders, here and there a philosopher proses against the money struggle.

From Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers by Arthur Brisbane

A similar bill prosed in the Senate would change visitation restrictions specifically for nursing homes, although the measure has not yet been placed on the Legislature’s agenda.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 3, 2021

He wanted a good walk; his head was stupid from his lectures; that old Jennings prosed so awfully upon Paley, it made him quite ill.

From Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert by John Henry Newman

By far the most important portion of what one calls education, I owe to him; yet he never preached, or prosed, or played the pedagogue.

From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 3, February 1896 by Various

You will admit that I have never prosed so much before, but the period and the subject seem to encourage it.

From Through the Magic Door by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

When Streatham spread its pleasant board, I opened learning's valued hoard, And as I feasted, prosed.

From Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings by Hester Lynch Piozzi

Most of the time all the spectator sees is Spencer Tracy sitting in a rowboat and mumbling to himself, and all he hears is Hemingway's own narrative prosing along the sound track.

From Time Magazine Archive

“And I shall be deservedly hanged,” say you, wishing to put an end to this prosing.

From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by George Saintsbury

And, mercy on us, what sermons they preached in those cold old churches, prosing away sometimes for two hours at a time!

From The Story of Our Country Every Child Can Read by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut

"Sir," said Dr. Johnson, to some prosing tormentor, "I would rather a man would knock me down, than to begin to talk to me of the Punic wars."

From Practical Education, Volume II by Maria Edgeworth

Cease, for I can no longer endure thy interminable prosing; a more talkative varlet never intruded on the patience of an indulgent master.

From Gómez Arias Or, The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance. by Joaquín Telesforo de Trueba y Cosío