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

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

Ambitious and powerful...Seiffert writes lean, clean prose.

The Letters of the Law Lawyers are hardly known for their crisp, clean prose.

This is not to deny that James Shapiro writes good, clean prose that can stand up to Ackroyd's.

Written in clean and simple, but also subtly suggestive, prose it tells of Edith Hope, a romantic novelist on a "curious interlude in her life".

He felt McEwan strove too hard to display technical knowledge "and his ability to put that knowledge into good, clean prose".

He was proud that he could capture the clean prose of the man who wrote The Sun Also Rises.

"Seiffert writes lean, clean prose," David Sacks said here last year.

Gordon's clean prose spares no gory detail.