In English writing, the phrase " a modest proposal " is now conventionally an allusion to this style of straight-faced satire.

After starting his writing career by writing for " true confession " style pulp magazines like True Story, van Vogt decided to switch to writing something he enjoyed, science fiction.

Adherents of this theory argue that even when the two versions diverge, they both have similarities in vocabulary and writing style — suggesting that the two shared a common author.

In course of time the Apostolic Chancery adopted this mode of writing as the " curial " style, still further abridging by omitting the diphthongs ae and oe, and likewise all lines and marks of punctuation.

In the pontificate of Pius II, their number, which had been fixed at twenty-four, had overgrown to such an extent as to diminish considerably the individual remuneration, and, as a consequence, able and competent men no longer sought the office, and hence the old style of writing and expediting the Bulls was no longer used, to the great injury of justice, the interested parties, and the dignity of the Holy See.

Although the book has been historically classified as " prophetic ", the style of writing is apocalyptic which was popular between 200 BCE and 100 CE.

Another variety of writing style, called boustrophedon, was used in some scripts, such as ancient Greek inscriptions and Hungarian runes.

Also includes runically unrelated: en: blackletter | blackletter writing style and: en: pigpen cipher | pigpen cipher.

The writing style of comic strips changed as well after the war.

His explicit writing style has shocked many readers.

Cronenberg stated that while writing the screenplay for Naked Lunch, he felt a moment of synergy with the writing style of Burroughs.

While historians disagree over the exact authorship of the work, the writing contains clear indications of Allen's style.

Paul sometimes uses a style of writing common in his time called a " diatribe ".

In political and historical writing Niccolò Machiavelli and his friend Francesco Guicciardini initiated a new realistic style of writing.

The printing technology affected the style of writing.

The lower-case Greek letters were developed much later by medieval scribes to permit a faster, more convenient cursive writing style with the use of ink and quill.

Moore's essays are known for their clear, circumspect writing style, and for he is known for his methodical and patient approach to philosophical problems.

His acting troupe, The Queens Players, have produced 6 mainstage productions of Grand Guignol plays, and Mazda is writing new plays in the classic Guignol style.

However, as their company remit also includes encouraging new writing, they have also staged several new plays in the Grand-Guignol style, including " Eating For Two ", " Penalty " and " Ways and Means ".

Differences of chronology, " style ", and theology suggest that the author of Luke-Acts was not familiar with Paul's distinctive theology but instead was writing a decade or more after his death, by which point significant harmonization between different traditions within Early Christianity had occurred.

For instance, the writing style is different, the author for reasons of humility refers to himself instead as " the disciple whom Jesus loved ," while John in Revelations refers to himself as John at least five times.

* Ninth century BC, particularly in the reign of Joash-a position especially popular among nineteenth-century scholars ( making Joel one of the earliest writing prophets )

The codex holds considerable practical advantages over other book formats, such as compactness, sturdiness, ease of reference ( a codex is random access, as opposed to a scroll, which is sequential access ), and especially economy of materials ; unlike the scroll, both recto and verso could be used for writing.

The Persians found the Chaldeans masters of reading and writing, and especially versed in all forms of incantation, in sorcery, witchcraft, and the magical arts.

There was an opinion in the Church that viewed that perhaps the Council understood the Church of Alexandria correctly, but wanted to curtail the existing power of the Alexandrine Hierarch, especially after the events that happened several years before at Constantinople from Pope Theophilus of Alexandria towards Patriarch John Chrysostom and the unfortunate turnouts of the Second Council of Ephesus in AD 449, where Eutichus misled Pope Dioscorus and the Council in confessing the Orthodox Faith in writing and then renouncing it after the Council, which in turn, had upset Rome, especially that the Tome which was sent was not read during the Council sessions.

Albert Ellis advocated the use of E-prime, especially in writing, as a way to avoid muddled and blame-based thinking that makes psychotherapy patients distressed.

Although The Histories were often criticized in antiquity for bias, inaccuracy and plagiarism — Lucian of Samosata attacked Herodotus as a liar in Verae Historiae and went as far as to deny him a place among the famous on the Island of the Blessed — modern historians and philosophers take a more positive view of Herodotus's methodology, especially those searching for a paradigm of objective historical writing.

Here, it should be noted that several of the saints about whom Cyril was writing, especially Euthymios and Savas, were in fact from Cappadocia.

The word " jurisdiction " is also used, especially in informal writing, to refer to a state or political subdivision generally, or to its government, rather than to its legal authority.

Early writing on mineralogy, especially on gemstones, comes from ancient Babylonia, the ancient Greco-Roman world, ancient and medieval China, and Sanskrit texts from ancient India and the ancient Islamic World.

Karen Fog Olwig published her research about Nevis in 1993, writing that the areas where the Afro-Caribbean traditions were especially strong and flourishing relate to kinship and subsistence farming.

While the language was chosen as a medium of prestige in records and official statements along with Latin in the early 13th century, Occitan faced competition from the rising local Romance vernacular, the Navarro-Aragonese, both orally and in writing, especially after Aragon's territorial conquests south to Saragossa, Huesca and Tudela between 1118 and 1134.

He plunged into writing, speaking and lobbying the US Congress and European governments against Augusto Pinochet's regime, and soon became the leading voice of the Chilean resistance, preventing several loans ( especially from Europe ) from being awarded to the military government.

The first writing systems were mostly logographic and / or syllabic, for example Chinese and Maya script, and they do not necessarily require punctuation, especially spacing.

It was much later, in the 1600s, with the increased popularity of writing, especially in the copperplate style promoted by the many printed manuals available from the ' Writing Masters ,' that quills became more pointed and flexible.

He often broke with many of the Bible Belt's values and mores — especially in regard to religion and sexual morality – both in his writing and in his personal life.

He became known especially for his writing for vaudeville-type performances, which were very popular in France during that time.

Usually, rigorous rules of scientific writing are enforced by the editors ; however, these rules may vary from journal to journal, especially between journals from different publishers.

In Long Kesh in the mid-1970s, and writing under the pseudonym " Brownie " in Republican News, Adams called on Republicans for increased political activity, especially at a local level.

Robert Chambers, writing in 19th century notes that " especially in England, miracle to stand for religious play in general ".

* Systems of scansion, the analysis of writing and verse regarding rhythmic and especially metrical structure

" The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association contains the rules for every aspect of writing, especially in the social sciences from determining authorship to constructing a table to avoiding plagiarism and constructing accurate reference citations.

The report does address the question of why children's reading and writing ( especially for boys ) have not been meeting expectations.

The writing is simple, yet the individuals ( especially the bourgeois title character ) are dynamic and complex.