high-style

Example Sentences

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“Forbidden Fruits” can’t reconcile all of its influences and just ends up as a collection of references and high style without much staying power — it’s essentially the fast fashion of girly pop horror.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

If the Globes’ popularity were only related to gawking at stars getting drunk in high style, then the numbers for the Emmys telecast, with its far superior production, should have been robust too.

From Salon • Feb. 10, 2024

“It fits directly into the atmosphere of people making fun of high style or high fashion,” Cohen said.

From Washington Post • Mar. 27, 2023

This euphoric passage from that piece, about overtaking a Porsche, is as good a snippet of O’Rourke’s high style as any:

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2022

Lincoln set a new standard for political oratory, but he didn’t abolish what went before—and the high style is still visible in Lincoln’s successors.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith