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Example sentences for "stylistic"

Lexicographically close words:
stylets; styling; stylish; stylishly; stylist; stylists; stylized; styll; stylle; stylo
  1. This seems unlikely to me, not only on the great stylistic affinity of this print to Rembrandt's unquestioned works of 1650, but also on the basis of my own reading of the date.

  2. It dimly foreshadows two literary products which reach a development only long after the days of Elizabeth--the novel with a purpose, and the stylistic novel.

  3. George Pettie, for instance, in his Pettie Palace of Pettie His Pleasure, published in 1576, has all the stylistic characteristics of the Euphues except the fabulous natural history.

  4. No such common likeness, or avoidance of stylistic aberration and grammatical solecism, obtains in mediaeval prose or verse.

  5. Yet one remark may be added to what others have said: if Einhard's composition was an excellent copy of classical Latin it was nothing else; it has no stylistic individuality.

  6. It is well known that the great Latin prose, in spite of variances of stylistic intent and faculty among the individual writers, was an artistic, not to say artificial creation, formed under the influence of Greek models.

  7. He is the earliest Latin author who tries to equal the Greeks in stylistic refinement, and few of those who came after him were as successful as he.

  8. The Latin agrees with English in the stylistic employment of the Second Person Singular in an indefinite sense (= 'one').

  9. In this period the language, especially in the hands of Cicero, reaches a high degree of stylistic perfection.

  10. Donatello and other Florentines worked under different sympathies for form, affecting angularity in their treatment of the nude, adhering to literal transcripts from the model or to conventional stylistic schemes.

  11. The unlimited mastery which he acquired over form, and which certainly seduced him at the close of his career into a stylistic mannerism, was based in the first instance upon profound and patient interrogation of reality.

  12. Repeated visits to that shrine have only renewed former impressions, which will not bear to be reproduced in other language, and would lose some of their freshness by the stylistic effort.

  13. The malignancy of this letter is only equalled by its stylistic ingenuity.

  14. She was very well dressed--more stylistic than any girl that he could see in the mirror.

  15. But in Mr. Murray's opinion this standard was preserved in the epics, after it was obsolete in practice, for reasons of stylistic convention.

  16. However, in the view which is not mine, stylistic conventions in the later poetry were based on a following of what was no convention in the older poetry, say as to the use of coined money or of cavalry.

  17. No "stylistic convention" forbade mention of these usages.

  18. No stylistic convention interfered and kept them out.

  19. Under the influence of the example of the proprietors of the 'Enterprise', strict stylistic disciplinarians of the Dana school of journalism, Clemens learned the advantages of the crisp, direct style which characterizes his writing.

  20. From the days when he came under the tutelage of Mr. Howells, and humbly learned to prune away his stylistic superfluities of the grosser sort, Mark Twain indubitably began to subject himself to the discipline of stern self-criticism.

  21. Continued interest in the stylistic tools is also seen in Puttenham’s The Arte of English Poesie (1589).

  22. As a representative of this stylistic school, it offers little that is new to the third part of classical rhetoric.

  23. Quite apart from stylistic evidence, which is convincing against its attribution to Lucan, it is almost certain that the name of Lucan has been wrongly inserted for that of Vergil.

  24. These poems are followed by eight more epigrams,[329] the first two of which Binet attributes to Petronius on stylistic grounds, but without any MS.

  25. But the author of the Aetna had not the stylistic gifts of the Alexandrian.

  26. Compared with Martial, Seneca and Lucan, Statius and Juvenal are, at their worst, stylistic acrobats.

  27. Dickens's plots, it must be admitted, are strangely unintelligible, the repetitions and stylistic decorations of his work exceed all bounds, the form is unmanageable and insignificant.

  28. These verbal and stylistic criticisms are not meant to cast reproach on Tasso as a poet.

  29. We find the same stylistic involution in these lines (xii.

  30. Prose-writers burst the bonds of Bembo, trampled on Boccaccio, reveled in the stylistic debaucheries of Bartolo.

  31. This is manifest in the Reali di Francia, a work of considerable stylistic power, which cannot probably be dated earlier than the middle of the fifteenth century.

  32. Yet he never suffered this stylistic preoccupation to spoil his qualities as an historian.

  33. Some of Varchi's own stylistic pedantries may be attributed to this Latinizing education.

  34. The method which was originally the stylistic expression of a deeply emotional and very proud soul, became towards the end of the author's life a calculated, excessive use of contrast as a means of producing artistic effect.

  35. Previous stylistic characteristics- spontaneity is only the most evident-are reified and framed in new settings together with the interpretation.

  36. Now it provides for checking spelling, contains dictionaries, checks syntax and suggests stylistic changes.

  37. Zeus at Olympia (see GREEK ART), but this seems a chronological and stylistic impossibility.

  38. But looking at the actual songs that created soul as a genre shows us that the fusion goes far beyond merely a stylistic one.

  39. Indeed, the only question of rectitude Charles was focused on was the stylistic one.

  40. To them, soul was a stylistic violation, a mingling of the sacred with the profane.

  41. Because beyond the breach of stylistic barriers, the relationships Charles described did not seem to belong in church.

  42. A proper analysis of the natural stylistic process would begin with the sensation and end with the pure idea-- so pure that it corresponded not only to nothing real, but to nothing imaginative either.

  43. That which can be recomposed from the products of stylistic distillation bears the same resemblance to the style distilled, that a perfumed paper rose bears to a real rose.

  44. From a stylistic consideration alone it has been possible not only to show that the monuments date from different periods, but also to establish the sequence of these periods and that of the monuments in them.

  45. When the monuments of the southern cities are arranged according to their art development, that is, in stylistic sequence, they are found to be arranged in their chronological order as well.

  46. Elijah and Elisha), and their stylistic variations may be, as Gunkel suggests, the mark of a district or region; for this district one would look in the neighbourhood of Jerusalem.

  47. The divergences of detail, with corresponding stylistic variations, were recognized long ago (e.

  48. He has at least two contributions to confer, a very aristocratic notion of religion, and a superb gift for stylistic expression.

  49. We shall have room for criticising stylistic extravagances, archaisms of a not interesting order for us, yet there will be nothing said but the highest in praise of his genius.

  50. The best that can be offered by the best writer of prose is to show us the development of the idea and the stylistic pattern proceed hand in hand, sometimes by an obvious and triumphant effort, sometimes with a great air of ease and nature.

  51. And with these the execution is but play; for the stylistic problem is resolved beforehand, and all large originality of treatment wilfully foregone.


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