prose

The entries, provided by a wide range of writers, journalists and academics, are a little uneven, but the presentation is so good that it’s hard to mind that the prose doesn’t always hit its mark.

This intimate volume includes slices of memoir, critical essays and appreciations of other authors, among them Ross Macdonald, whose prose she finds “so elegant and rich as to drive any writer to fits of envy.”

His prose is often dense, his judgment severe.

It doesn’t help that Ms. Doucet’s prose, replete with stock expressions, is tiresomely banal.

He's poured a metaphorical can of Australian beer over the novel by converting Tolstoy's prose into a lingo that wouldn't sound out of place in the popular Aussie sitcom Kath & Kim.