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Writing and style
It was much later, in the 1600s, with the increased popularity of writing, especially in the copperplate style promoted by the many printed manuals available from the ' Writing Masters ,' that quills became more pointed and flexible.
Writing in The Times Literary Supplement Philip Stead was more generous to Dr. No, although he thought that Fleming was offering " too opulent a feast " with the book, although he manages to pull this off, where " a less accomplished writer, lacking Mr. Fleming's quick descriptive gift and his powers of making his characters talk with such lucid and natural style, would never have got away with this story.
< blockquote class =" toccolours " style =" text-align: left ; width: 28 %; float: left ; margin: 10px 10px 5px 5px ; padding: 10px ; display: table ;"> Into the Music: " The album's last four songs, " Angelou ", " And the Healing Has Begun ", and " It's All in the Game / You Know What They're Writing About " are a veritable tour-de-force with Morrison summoning every vocal trick at his disposal from " Angelou's climactic shouts to the sexually-charged, half-mumbled monologue in " And the Healing Has Begun " to the barely audible whisper that is the album's final sound.
* Pechenik Citation Style is a style described in A Short Guide to Writing about Biology, 6th ed.
In Writing Degree Zero ( 1953 ), Barthes argues that conventions inform both language and style, rendering neither purely creative.
Writing in a lyrical, flowing style that eschews excessive use of the comma and semicolon, recalling William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway in equal measure, Cormac McCarthy's body of work seizes on the literary traditions of several regions of the United States and spans multiple genres.
* Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy, an online guide to the crafting of SF and fantasy, covering fundamentals of turning ideas into stories, creating believable characters, language and style, workshopping, etc.
Writing in The Times Literary Supplement, Alexander Fiske-Harrison reviewed her final novel in 2000, Gemini, and through that her entire oeuvre of historical fiction: " Although Dunnett ’ s writing style is not the neutral prose of genre fiction and it can be opaque and hard to read, especially in the early works, at times, this works with the almost melodramatic content to produce a powerful, operatic mixture ...
Writing in The New York Times, Bosley Crowther praised the film, writing " Mr. Hecht has written and Mr. Hitchcock has directed in brilliant style a romantic melodrama which is just about as thrilling as they come — velvet smooth in dramatic action, sharp and sure in its characters and heavily charged with the intensity of warm emotional appeal.
* Writing style should be conversational, yet concise and accurate and appropriate to the target audience.
Writing for Newsweek, critic Jack Kroll thought the early part of the film was handled " with wit and style ", although he went on to say that the director was " hamstrung by Lorenzo Semple's script ".
The Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing has been awarded since 1917 for distinguished editorial writing, the test of excellence being clearness of style, moral purpose, sound reasoning, and power to influence public opinion in what the writer conceives to be the right direction.
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Writing styles of YA stories range widely, from the richness of literary style to the clarity and speed of the unobtrusive and free verse.
" Writing for The Observer, Francis Hope was surprised by Fleming's written style, which he found to be " more flabby verbose than one expects of a thriller writer ", although this was redeemed by Fleming having " some interesting conversations with local experts on crime ".
Writing for Allmusic, critic Ben Davies wrote of the album " A number of classic Walsh tracks are featured, including a more polished version of " Turn to Stone ," originally featured on his debut album, Barnstorm, in a somewhat more riotous style ...
The Writing Rules specify restrictions on grammar and style usage.
Writing in The New York Times, Charles Poore reported that Bradbury " writes in a style that seems to have been nourished on the poets and fabulists of the Irish Literary Renaissance ," praising him as being " wonderfully adept at getting to the heart of his story without talking all day long about it and around it.
Writing in 1917, Abraham Cahan credited these immigrants with the creation of American style:
Writing for Match Game, DeBartolo is credited with coming up with the bawdy and suggestive style of questions that the show is remembered for.
Writing for Pitchfork Media, Ethan P. noted the " cartoonish " production to be similar in style to several of Eminem's early singles, claiming it to be fitting to the Batman and Robin theme on " Business ", but noted that " this time he's actually talking about Batman and Robin !!
Writing in The New Yorker, John Updike called the book “ enchanting, in the perfumed, dandified style of disenchantment brought to grandeur by Proust and Nabokov .” Mitch Albom then chose The Confessions of Max Tivoli for the Today Show Book Club and it soon became a bestseller.

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