For this reason, a screenplay is written using technical jargon and tight, spare prose when describing stage directions.

His deceptively spare prose has a pristine clarity that is stunning in its impact.

And at times, the author's childlike observations are too ingenuous; with such spare prose, one false note can cause the story to falter.

Mr. Lowry created simple characters and wrote about their vulnerabilities in clean, spare prose.

Elemental tales of lives on a South Korean island, in spare and beautiful prose.

The book begins with clean, spare prose, but finishes in gorgeous incantation and poetry.

Sallis's spare, concrete prose achieves the level of poetry.

The author "writes in deft, spare prose," Gabrielle Burton said here last year.

In spare, eloquent prose, she explains the harsh rules of the game.

French's spare, notelike prose leaves just enough to the imagination.