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But when I cite some favorite examples of his inspired sentence-making, he recalls only hard labor in the cause of "gloomy clarity," his signature effect.
Christopher Lydon: V. S. Naipaul's "Gloomy Clarity" About Africa and Himself (AUDIO) Christopher Lydon 2010
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But when I cite some favorite examples of his inspired sentence-making, he recalls only hard labor in the cause of "gloomy clarity," his signature effect.
Christopher Lydon: V. S. Naipaul's "Gloomy Clarity" About Africa and Himself (AUDIO) Christopher Lydon 2010
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The next four novels drew heavily on her own life experiences – working in a book shop, living on a house boat, teaching at a drama school, working for the BBC in wartime – exquisitely written novels, often steeped in melancholy, demonstrating her powers of concision and her incomparable sentence-making.
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The next four novels drew heavily on her own life experiences – working in a book shop, living on a house boat, teaching at a drama school, working for the BBC in wartime – exquisitely written novels, often steeped in melancholy, demonstrating her powers of concision and her incomparable sentence-making.
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But when I cite some favorite examples of his inspired sentence-making, he recalls only hard labor in the cause of "gloomy clarity," his signature effect.
Christopher Lydon: V. S. Naipaul's "Gloomy Clarity" About Africa and Himself (AUDIO) Christopher Lydon 2010
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But when I cite some favorite examples of his inspired sentence-making, he recalls only hard labor in the cause of "gloomy clarity," his signature effect.
Christopher Lydon: V. S. Naipaul's "Gloomy Clarity" about Africa and Himself (AUDIO) Christopher Lydon 2010
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But when I cite some favorite examples of his inspired sentence-making, he recalls only hard labor in the cause of "gloomy clarity," his signature effect.
Christopher Lydon: V. S. Naipaul's "Gloomy Clarity" About Africa and Himself (AUDIO) Christopher Lydon 2010
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There is no other remedy for careless, slipshod sentence-making so effective as the construction of many periodic sentences.
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I hate most to write letters because I am poor at sentence-making and also poor in my stock of words.
Botchan (Master Darling) Soseki Natsume 1891
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He paused, and Donal sat silent -- so long that his lordship opened the eyes which, the better to enjoy the process of sentence-making, he had kept shut, and half turned his head towards him: he had begun to doubt whether he was really by his bedside, or but one of his many visions undistinguishable by him from realities.
Donal Grant, by George MacDonald George MacDonald 1864
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