Hmm …

… Karen Thompson Walker on Writing Great Sentences | Word Craft - WSJ.com. (Hat tip, dave Lull.)

… take this sentence from the middle of one my favorite novels, "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy: "No moon rose beyond the murk and there was nowhere to go." Here, he poetically and vividly delivers an important piece of information—that the two characters have nowhere to go on this night. But he also suggests a much larger and more devastating truth: In the ravaged world he has created, there's nowhere on Earth for any of the survivors to go.

Well, for my money, the sentence is overwritten and pretentious.