His prose had hitherto tended to laxness.

When he is in his romantic mood, his prose tends toward the gaseous.

But the trouble is that pilot-writers are so taken with their specialty that their prose tends to read like an electronics catalogue.

Although his prose tends to be on the academic side, his sense of outrage comes through on every page of "Unconventional Success."

This amphibious quality is rare, although not quite so rare as the author's sometimes self-congratulatory prose tends to imply.

When Mr. Chabon turns to more emotional matters, however, his prose tends to grow labored, prolix and self-conscious.

And when he does elaborate at length on some piece of text, his prose too often tends to suffer from bloat.

The prose of such reporting tends to be more polished and longer than in newspaper articles.

She is often too eager to show off how quirkily her mind works, and her prose tends to overdo the ironic curlicues.

Their prose tends to be pure National Geographic.