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Sentence count:234+8Posted:2017-02-28Updated:2020-07-24
Antonym: poetrySimilar words: prosecuteprosecutorprosecutionproselytizemorosesun rosea bed of rosesprosperMeaning: [prəʊz]  n. 1. ordinary writing as distinguished from verse 2. matter of fact, commonplace, or dull expression. 
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(61) William Holden plays a hack scriptwriter down on his luck, and his purple prose gives the film its biting tone.
(62) The result is sometimes desperation prose, each individual phrase clamouring for attention.
(63) But even without the construction project, she'd still struggle to crank out prose.
(64) Eddy knows how to write page-turning, tense prose, and whips through big set-piece scenes with gusto.
(65) His prose is filled with active verbs and metaphors, instead of the passive voice and jargon frequently churned out by academics.
(66) He wrote his prose poems originally in Arabic and they have now been translated into more than 20 other languages.
(67) The cadence of the prose in the short version often emphasises meaning with a more telling precision than in the long version.
(68) They are distinguished not only by their formal skill and wide-ranging subject matters, but by their hairless, unshowy prose.
(69) Johnson's notion of poetic diction distinguishes it clearly from prose.
(70) Yet her simple, economical prose can carry irony as well as depth of feeling.
(71) At least one contemporary reviewer got the feeling that the various scribblers were being praised more for their passports than their prose.
(72) These comprise titles that are among the supreme achievements in prose narrative.
(73) Intermittently throughout his long career, Wagner attempted to formulate his aspirations in prose.
(74) Straus could have spent his life clipping coupons, safari hunting, or writing the hyperventilating prose that was his second love.
(75) Her petty jealousy and deep ambivalence about Dickinson explode through her schoolmarm prose.
(76) The book is written in spare prose that seems to want to strike a note of manly reticence.
(77) She writes a little poetry and prose, and indulges her great love of cooking, at which she excels.
(78) In flaccid prose Shaftesbury rambles on with an air of affected conversational ease which projects the persona of the patronising aristocrat.
(79) The late prose shows occasional glimpses of themes discussed earlier.
(80) It was brief, pithy and, like everything Lewis wrote in prose, hugely readable.
(81) It was a cross between prose and poetry- a mixture of narrative, lyric and drama.
(81) Sentencedict.com try its best to collect and create good sentences.
(82) Yeats wrote out his poems in prose first: it is a discipline which works.
(83) Poets seem to write more easily about love than prose writers.
(84) Her prose has always relied on a certain musicality and lyricism to seduce and keep us spellbound.
(85) Most surprising is that such force gets evoked in such brevity of prose.
(86) He is a scab on the play, a scab speaking prose.
(87) Jane Austen's ironies came alive, and the ellipses in Virginia Woolf's prose started to speak.
(88) The declamatory, repetitive, rhythmic prose of Ossian throbs with urgent sonorities and captivates the ear with its haunting incantations.
(89) I could find no pattern for the use of verse and prose in Los amantes de Teruel.
(90) Brook proceeded to turn Attlee's proposals into the more statuesque prose of the standard Cabinet paper.
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