noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
purple
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William Holden plays a hack scriptwriter down on his luck, and his purple prose gives the film its biting tone.
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Lady Thatcher will be honing her purple prose for the debate in the Lords.
■ NOUN
style
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Or has Mrs Cooper's prose style got to her?
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In other words, there is no one model of prose style which is applicable to all texts.
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In the following chapter, we shall use relatively short passages for exemplifying the analysis of prose style .
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And not least among his endowments is the command of a prose style which makes what he writes a pleasure to read.
■ VERB
write
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After all, women can't write good classical prose .
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Straus could have spent his life clipping coupons, safari hunting, or writing the hyperventilating prose that was his second love.
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It was brief, pithy and, like everything Lewis wrote in prose , hugely readable.
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I write reams of dry prose with appropriately technical language and what my colleagues consider scientific consequence.
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He wrote his prose poems originally in Arabic and they have now been translated into more than 20 other languages.
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She writes in minimalist prose , sometimes in staccato rhythms.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
deathless prose/verse/lines etc
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It won't be deathless prose, but it should be a grammatical and effective piece of writing.
purple prose/passage
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In his maturity what he remembered of his style of speaking were purple passages and a rather caustic irony.
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Lady Thatcher will be honing her purple prose for the debate in the Lords.
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William Holden plays a hack scriptwriter down on his luck, and his purple prose gives the film its biting tone.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Brown's prose is simple and direct.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An aggressive self-publicist, her inflamed prose brought her much notoriety.
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In other words, there is no one model of prose style which is applicable to all texts.
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Joe was the stylist, throwing in literary references and lingering over their prose until it had a lilt.
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Kingsolver's fecund prose is always reader-friendly, though we are directed to her messages with too heavy a hand.
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Poets seem to write more easily about love than prose writers.
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Straus could have spent his life clipping coupons, safari hunting, or writing the hyperventilating prose that was his second love.
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The prose of this chapter measures the adequacy of verbal accounts of catastrophe in the age of photographic reproduction.
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There is not a great deal of readable prose in the field.