104 Metaphors for styles

Carlyle's English style is itself a kind of epilepsy.

Even the style of the eighteenth century was not quite his ideal; it was too elegant; there was an artificial neatness about the form which imposed itself upon the substance, and degraded it.

At Bundi, the style was obviously a direct development from that of Udaipur itselfthe idioms for human figures and faces as well as the glowing colours being clearly based on Udaipur originals.

Article I declares that the style of the Confederacy shall be "The United States of America.

The style of decoration adopted is Byzantine.

It was the first in our language to be written on scientific principles, and with a solid basis of fact; and the style is the very climax of that classicism which had ruled England for an entire century.

Her style was not unlike that one hears in Methodist camp meetings from the best cultivated of that sect; her power lies in her deeply religious enthusiasm.

The styles are mixed,a certain sign, according to Lessing, of corruption of taste.

The style of our modern poets, is that, no doubt, by which they are most easily distinguished: but their genius has also an internal character; and the peculiarities of their taste may be discovered, without the assistance of their diction.

His style of oratory was the exact reflex of his mind.

But this style was too much the plaything of particular minds to create a permanent tradition.

But it is not only the food I eat at mother's, but the whole style of living is a direct departure from the simplicity that is in Christ.

He is obliged, in honesty, to state that the style of some of the buildings wrecked by the Germans was quite second rate.

It also was an attack on architectural changes in Christ Church; the general style was a parody of the "Compleat Angler."

His style was not an imitation of the German, but a characteristic form of expression, natural to him and to his father.

The style is a sort of reposeful Italian Renaissance, that is florid only in the best artistic sense.

THE STYLE OF MARQUESSTHUSWISE SPELT IS PICTURESQUE, BUT, LIKE THE BELT OF EARLDOM, CANNOT LONG ABIDE OR STEM THE DEMOCRATIC TIDE.

The known style of a dedication is flattery: it professes to flatter.

All is spontaneous; the spirit is not that of a laborious imitator, painfully seeking "effects" from another's inspiration; sincerity and naïveté are too apparent for this to be the work of any but a quite young artist, and one whose style is so thoroughly "Giorgionesque" as to be none other than the young Giorgione himself.

Her style is full, free, vivid, with plenty of dashes and postscripts,the vehicle of much genius and many noble thoughts; but in itself no style, or a careless and imperfect one.

Cycle, who is neither so young nor so handsome as Starlight, very gravely maintained, that all the perplexity may he avoided by leaping over eleven days in the reckoning; and, indeed, if it should come only to this, I think the new style is a delightful thing; for my mamma says I shall go to court when I am sixteen, and if they can but contrive often to leap over eleven days together, the months of restraint will soon be at an end.

PRECEPT I.Avoid verbosity; a concise style is the most favourable to strength.

His style is naturalis a reflection of himselfis warm with life, is odd, and at times fierce through the power of his sincerity.

He can wield a clever pen; his style is cogent, scholarly, and, unless overburdened with temper, dignified.

Buffon]; style is the dress of thoughts [Chesterfield].

104 Metaphors for  styles