Modern English prose, especially political writing, is not characterized by vagueness and incompetence
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The fight against bad English is not frivolous and is not the exclusive concern of professional writers 1 0 2Modern English prose, especially political writing, is characterized by vagueness and incompetence 1 0 2The work of prose-construction is often dodged by using dying metaphors, operators or verbal false limbs, pretentious diction, and meaningless words 1 0 2These tricks lead to an increase in slovenliness and vagueness in writing 1 0 2The whole tendency of modern prose is away from concreteness 1 0 2Modern writing often consists of long strips of words set in order by someone else 0 0 2Political writing is often bad and imitative 1 0 2Political language consists largely of euphemism and vagueness 1 0 2The enemy of clear language is insincerity 1 0 2In order to write better, you should take great pains to be clear 0 0 1