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I many times think that Firefly is a much better-written and more interesting version of Star Wars.
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Night after night, I think Mr. Letterman produces higher-quality, better-written, more surprising television than Mr. Leno.
Johnny-Come-Latelies Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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Kessler upheld the statute's individual mandate as a constitutionally proper exercise of Congress's power to regulate interstate commerce, basically adopting a better-written version of arguments that other judges and journalists have already made: Health care is a national market; Congress can regulate it in such a way as to provide for universal coverage; individuals can't "free-ride" off the system.
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Well, the ‘write the laws in plain English’ movement is a systematic reform, so the solution would be to repeal the ESEA and IDEA and replace them with better-written alternatives.
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Mostly I think it's about the fact that, as you say, Penderwicks is better-written than Eragon.
Penderwicks 2009
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To me, at any rate, it seems wholly not true that you could replace this kind of thing with a better-written epic fantasy of the same sort and still get what is wanted out of of it.
Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time 8: The Path of Daggers (1998) Adam Roberts 2010
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A better-written version of the book would be challenging, in some sense.
Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time 8: The Path of Daggers (1998) Adam Roberts 2010
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Hers is a far more thoughtful and better-written account than Gittleman's.
Is your BlackBerry making you sick? Juliet Eilperin 2010
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Sorry to toot my own horn, but I feel Djimon Hounsou throws a cinder block over the moon, and Faris schools fools in an underground male-model Fight Club that just might save the rec center is a better-written and more succinct synopsis than the one provided by the studio.
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My theory: if the author had more insight into his themes, the book would have been better-written and have had a touch of the ironical, and would have lost its vast middle-brow audience.
Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time 11: Knife of Dreams (2005) Adam Roberts 2010
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