Although it's supposed to seem effortless, too often such writing is simply prose that's been launched down the chute prematurely, naked and unshaped.

Now men were more than willing to leap into small boats and crowd the prematurely launched vessel, splashing water upon the flickering flames and securing the hull to shore.

Suddenly, the women's circuit has three stars, two of them newly and no doubt prematurely launched and the third still a teen-ager but already a recycled version of the original.

Since the Enterprise had been launched prematurely, there hadn't been much time to install creature comforts.

The spaceship is launched prematurely after Danny and Joe follow Professor Bulfinch and Dr. Grimes on a tour of the ship.

Launched prematurely, none of the attacking aircraft reached the designated post mission airfields, either crashing or ditching (except for one aircraft, which landed in the Soviet Union, where the crew was interned).

However, the unfinished ship had to be launched prematurely on November 7, 1939 because the slipway had to be cleared to build submarines.

Men aboard the prematurely launched lifeboats were rounded up by Wakiva II and Alcedo and returned to Brest.

The assault failed by being launched prematurely, before they had dug deeply enough to be sure of my exact position, and too tentative.

The Tet Offensive was launched prematurely in some areas on 30 January.