Word: well-written
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...Year will be crowned. Despite the appalling, bourgeois sexism of Hugh Hefner et al., the show must be better than its competition, the Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder. Nevertheless, if you watch the Playboy fete, remember one thing: you can't claim you're only watching because of the well-written articles...
Analyzing the qualities of well-written prose, Tuchman stressed clarity, a scrupulous regard for facts, and a feeling for the "sound of words." She said that the well-turned phrase was the secret of the writer's immortality...
Despite these ingredients of fictional disaster-plus a temptation to relate everything to "feminism"-A Fine Romance deserves a reading. Seton makes such charming, well-written excuses for her clichés: "There's an inherent plotlessness one has to contend with in the lives of civilized people, you see. Their marriages, divorces, are muted, cerebral. It puts a heavy burden on love affairs, do you see? They're the only credible climax left...
...mouth of a tennis player who is psyched up and poised, waiting for the serve. He speaks in lean sentences, quoting Aristotle, the Bible, and Dylan Thomas. He tosses erudite quips over the heads of his listeners and so appreciates precision of language that he once signed a well-written petition for Soviet Jews, 'as much for the syntax as the substance...
...various magazines over a 15 year period, in appearance the sort of innocuous collection many successful critics produce from time to time. And in fact, a number of these pieces, such as those on Waugh, Faulkner and Hammett, have the character conventionally associated with such volumes--that of being well-written, perceptive and clever, but without a coherent purpose. The book as a whole, however, despite Marcus's protests to the contrary, reads like "an ideal project for literary studies," an embodiment of the benefits to be derived from applying non-literary tools of analysis to literary texts...