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- In literary criticism, purple prose is overly ornate prose text that may disrupt a narrative flow by drawing undesirable attention to its own extravagant...5 KB (448 words) - 21:24, 12 August 2024
- Description (section Purple prose)usage, although such passages are usually incongruous. By extension, purple prose is lavishly figurative, rhythmic, or otherwise overwrought. In philosophy...5 KB (504 words) - 21:38, 13 February 2024
example of a florid, melodramatic style of fiction writing", also known as purple prose. The status of the sentence as an archetype for bad writing comes from...13 KB (1,464 words) - 09:56, 19 October 2024- in 1992. In 1992, Elein Fleiss and Olivier Zahm started the magazine Purple Prose as a reaction against the superficial glamour of the 1980s; much as a...7 KB (706 words) - 04:27, 8 October 2024
Steelover with Rudy Lenners (known from German rockband (the) Scorpions). In 1999 she was the lead singer in Brussels band Purple Prose. Vaya con Dios v t e...2 KB (107 words) - 02:40, 22 January 2024- subcategories, such as detective fiction, romance novels, Western novels, and purple prose. Sentences that are notable but not quite bad enough to merit the Grand...9 KB (619 words) - 22:40, 19 August 2024
- are often illustrated with historical anecdotes, spurts of creative purple prose, and criticism of commercial overdevelopment and environmental degradation...5 KB (483 words) - 13:35, 14 January 2024
- acquaintance. The book received mainly negative reviews, criticized for its purple prose and overly sympathetic discussion of the ringleader. The story follows...9 KB (916 words) - 20:12, 29 August 2024
- Spanish Armada. One biographer wrote that The Armada was "written in purple prose but a royal purple, which read like historical fiction." Another biographer...2 KB (226 words) - 13:04, 27 October 2024
- The Lost Stories (section Purple Prose)gave his speech (albeit unwritten and unprepared because of the story "Purple Prose"), he realized that there was a gallery above the dance hall where assassins...16 KB (2,526 words) - 08:58, 18 July 2024
- prose and verse. It is widely found in Western and Eastern literature. Purple prose – is prose that is so extravagant, ornate, or flowery as to break the...9 KB (1,071 words) - 16:22, 6 October 2024
co-founded Purple Prose magazine. In the introduction of Purple Anthology, Zahm shares why he chose to create Purple Prose: "We launched Purple Prose in the...36 KB (3,768 words) - 00:07, 30 October 2024- German. "Es wird schon wieder gehen" had been previously sung on the Purple Prose album. Steffen Hung. "Vaya Con Dios - The Promise". hitparade.ch. Retrieved...4 KB (133 words) - 19:55, 9 January 2022
- McKittrick Ros, born Anna McKittrick, novelist and poet noted for her purple prose (died 1939). 25 December – Patrick S. Dinneen, lexicographer and historian...5 KB (435 words) - 02:03, 24 September 2024
- slippers, and nightcap. Despite his reputation for eccentricity and his purple prose, larded with mythological allusions, he provides a wealth of eyewitness...3 KB (493 words) - 13:51, 7 June 2022
from the countryside. Mao Dun depicts the modernity of Shanghai with "purple" prose, like "three 1930-model Citroens", electric lights, Browning rifles...3 KB (202 words) - 09:12, 29 September 2024- Mark Barter commented that "Despite the odd quibble, the occasional purple prose and the annoying lack of an index - I recommend this to provide an extra...3 KB (366 words) - 21:28, 28 April 2023
- Don. Guinness. ISBN 9781882267026. Retrieved 26 April 2017. "Seriously Purple Prose – The Official David Freeman and The Lover Speaks Site Updates". Soulsaw...14 KB (1,379 words) - 20:19, 23 October 2024
- since its publication, and has been panned by critics for its excessive purple prose and poorly-constructed plot. Noble Sir John Dunfern makes a sudden decision...10 KB (1,206 words) - 01:34, 28 April 2024
- episodes: The Wild West, Around the World In a Daze, Writers of the Purple Prose and Dawn of Time. "The animators of Animaniacs take us inside the iconic...3 KB (316 words) - 13:02, 3 July 2022
- – 13 October 2012 Derived from a reference by the Roman poet Horace. purple prose (uncountable) Extravagant or flowery writing, especially in a literary
- artsy, at worst the exterminating angel of depravity. In Defense of Purple Prose (1985) Wikipedia has an article about: Paul West (poet) "An Interview
- IV I It was a morning of artistic creation. Fifteen minutes after the purple prose of Babbitt's form-letter, Chester Kirby Laylock, the resident salesman