The authors' straightforward and unassuming prose helps guide the reader through the details of Philadelphia's "Trial of the Century."

He succeeded in delivering straightforward prose, though it carried strongly poetic overtones.

From the beginning, Rowling's own brand of magic has been her quiet mastery, the supple, straightforward prose in which extraordinary things just happen, without preparation or emphasis.

He acted as the nation's schoolteacher, explaining, in simple, straightforward prose, what the stakes were.

His straightforward prose lacks dash and sparkle.

Ms. Lo's experienced, straightforward prose urged me on.

She writes clean, straightforward prose (as her well-received earlier book, "A Country Year," also showed).

He is the master of straightforward, pop-pop-pop prose, the man who interviewed the gravedigger at John F. Kennedy's funeral.

Instead of atmospherics and access, what we get is solid newsmagazine reporting rendered in straightforward prose, interrupted by the occasional out-of-key pulp flourish.

Writing in clean straightforward prose, Weil completely refrains from sentimentality and rhetoric.