stylistic
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Anyone who reads “Fairview” will understand the challenge of producing it, but I don’t think I fully appreciated how much stylistic nuance is in play.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026
The author makes the odd stylistic choice of referring to the engineers, businessmen and politicians he writes about by their first name.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
Unlike Douglas Sirk’s beautifully photographed Technicolor melodramas of the 1950s, or the subgenre’s more narratively contemplative, weepy entries from the late ’70s, the new guard of romantic tearjerkers doesn’t have a pronounced stylistic draw.
From Salon • Mar. 19, 2026
The demographic of trot's loyal fanbase is driving this stylistic shift, explains Jung.
From BBC • Feb. 21, 2026
The stylistic parting of ways that started to become evident in the early twentieth century, though, was on an unprecedented scale.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.