In literary criticism, purple prose is overly ornate prose text that may disrupt a narrative flow by drawing undesirable attention to its own extravagant...

literature. Purple prose – is prose that is so extravagant, ornate, or flowery as to break the flow and draw excessive attention to itself. Prose is divided...

Purple is a French fashion, art and culture magazine founded in 1992. In 1992, Elein Fleiss and Olivier Zahm started the magazine Purple Prose as a reaction...

usage, although such passages are usually incongruous. By extension, purple prose is lavishly figurative, rhythmic, or otherwise overwrought. In philosophy...

Purple is also the color of the Engineering Corp in the British Military. Purple prose refers to pretentious or overly embellished writing. For example, a paragraph...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Armada. One biographer wrote that The Armada was "written in purple prose but a royal purple, which read like historical fiction." Another biographer noted...

intended audience Pleonasm – Redundancy in linguistic expression Purple prose – Prose text that is overwritten in a way that disrupts a narrative flow...

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...

spontaneous hair loss. She returned in 1999 as the singer in the group Purple Prose, which released a debut album that year. Vaya Con Dios returned in 2004...

Sean (February 4, 1995). "Beware the Perilous Pitfalls of Brightly Purple Prose". The Age (Melbourne, Australia). Begley, 2014 p. 134-135: Plot summary...

Vest's "Eulogy of the Dog" is one of the most enduring passages of purple prose in American courtroom history (only a partial transcript has survived)[citation...

Biography & History". AllMusic. Retrieved 1 January 2017. "Seriously Purple Prose – The Official David Freeman and The Lover Speaks Site Updates". Soulsaw...

and MacLeod tried to suggest improvements, but the book had too much purple prose and a very convoluted structure. In 1984, shortly after The Wasp Factory...

liked it. It was fun writing something completely over the top, full of purple prose, and in a weak moment I agreed to do five more and the novelization of...

described the book as having an uneven, at times choppy, pace and much purple prose, highlighting a passage in which Bowers describes how he milked a cow...

was an unlikely publishing sensation. Literary purists scoffed at its purple prose; Indian (and many other) readers bristled at its stereotypes and cultural...

acquaintance. The book received mainly negative reviews, criticized for its purple prose and overly sympathetic discussion of the ringleader. The story follows...

its Romantic qualities, it has likewise become a textbook example of purple prose. "It was a dark and stormy night" is only the beginning of the full first...

write a compelling mystery novel. Janet Maslin wrote that in addition to purple prose, "credibility problems plague Ms. Pessl from the moment she first toots...

the book "high energy, switching from clear, technical exposition to purple prose and street slang." and praised the book as "provocative and lively,"...

Figure of speech Pleonasm – Redundancy in linguistic expression Purple prose – Prose text that is overwritten in a way that disrupts a narrative flow...

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...

(pp. 130–32). Bleiler,Richard "Forgotten Giant: Hoffman's Adventure". Purple Prose Magazine, November 1998, p. 3-12. Sampson,Robert.(1991) Yesterday's Faces:Dangerous...

Menza, Don. ISBN 9781882267026. Retrieved 26 April 2017. "Seriously Purple Prose – The Official David Freeman and The Lover Speaks Site Updates". Soulsaw...

Riesman of Vulture described the prose as having "awkward rhythm, strange digressions, and stultifyingly purple prose" and noted that the work is "agonizing"...

diction in each style of writing; l.81–106) and for Horace's criticisms of purple prose (purpureus pannus, l.15–16), a term coined by him to mean the use of...