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There are some truly strange and incongruous turns of phrase in this article - "Google's human resources boss, a serious woman with bangs named Stacey Sullivan"
by bshimmin 13y ago
There are some truly strange and incongruous turns of phrase in this article - "Google's human resources boss, a serious woman with bangs named Stacey Sullivan", "Finally Rosing, a bald man in glasses, began to speak", "Though he was an appealing presence with above-average height and nearly black hair", etc.
It strikes me the author would far rather be writing Mills & Boon novels than articles for Business Insider.
- nicholascarlson 13y agoI just deleted the comment about the bangs. Really does read awkwardly.
- bshimmin 13y agoI should clarify that I didn't think the article badly written - just not quite in the style I'm used to from a publication like Business Insider. That said, I probably haven't read many other long-form pieces on there. Others here clearly enjoyed the writing style very much!
- mishimin 13y agoYou seem to have a very high opinion of the Business Insider
- diziet 13y agoI enjoyed the piece and it's long form content and flow - some of the descriptions of the people (of people I'd met, people I'd heard of many times and people I'd never known existed) were nice additional things in the story.
- paulrademacher 13y ago"Woman with bangs." I cringe any time I see a writeup of a female engineer or executive where attention is drawn to her hairstyle, clothes, or shoes. It's unnecessary and undignified.
- bluefinity 13y agoDo you also cringe every time you see a write-up of a male engineer or executive where attention is drawn to his hairstyle, clothes, or shoes? Example from the same article: "Finally Rosing, a bald man in glasses, began to speak"