Bulwer-Lytton
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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In Week 1411 the Empress asked for a bad final sentence or two to a novel, a counterpart to the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for bad opening sentences.
From Washington Post
The film was inspired by the 1871 novel The Coming Race, by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, who famously inspired a long-running contest for deliberately terrible writing.
From The Verge
No. 1 is probably closest to a softball — lots of trivia nerds might recognize Bulwer-Lytton as the author who penned the now-cliched opener, “It was a dark and stormy night.”
From Washington Post
In 2000, Mr. Dahl was a grand prize winner in the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for dreadful prose.
From Washington Post
Mr. Dahl, a resident most recently of Jacksonville, was also vastly proud of having won, in 2000, the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, which honors deliberately dreadful prose.
From New York Times
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