It has nothing of the proud stride of the trained runner about it, it is not a lope, it is not done with style or verve.

The style of life chosen by the beat generation, the rhythm and ritual they have adopted as uniquely their own, is designed to enhance the value of the sexual experience.

George Meredith has said that fervor is the core of style.

It is true that this distinction between style and idea often approaches the arbitrary since in the end we must admit that style and content frequently influence or interpenetrate one another and sometimes appear as expressions of the same insight.

At right is a casual style in a crushed unlined white leather.

No matter what style your home is, ranch, two-story, Colonial or contemporary, central air conditioning is easily installed.

Roy Mason is essentially a landscape painter whose style and direction has a kinship with the English watercolorists of the early nineteenth century, especially the beautifully patterned art of John Sell Cotman.

There is only one Hardy style, but in the earlier poems that style is only intermittently evident, and when it is not, the style is the style of another poet, or of the fashion of the time.

While Renaissance artists sought nature to find their style, the Mannerists looked first for a style and found a manner. In Mannerist paintings, compositions can have no focal point, space can be ambiguous, figures can be characterized by an athletic bending and twisting with distortions, exaggerations, an elastic elongation of the limbs, bizarre posturing on one hand, graceful posturing on the other hand, and a rendering of the heads as uniformly small and oval.

3 ) criticizes his writings as characterized by pomposity of style and an extravagant use of poetical epithets and compounds and far-fetched metaphors.

The terseness of style and the faithful imitation of nature which characterized them called forth the warmest admiration.

Simplicity and natural expression had hitherto characterized Canova's style ; with these were now united more exalted conceptions of grandeur and of truth.

The United States ' regional cuisines are characterized by its extreme diversity and style with each region having its own distinctive cuisine.

* Hangzhou style, characterized by rich variations and the use of bamboo shoots

Caste is a form of social stratification characterized by endogamy, hereditary transmission of a style of life which often includes an occupation, ritual status in a hierarchy, and social exclusion based on cultural notions of purity and pollution.

At the beginning of the 20th century, there was an explosion of innovation in dance style characterized by an exploration of freer technique.

Known for his surrealist films, he has developed his own unique cinematic style, which has been dubbed " Lynchian ", a style characterized by its dream imagery and meticulous sound design.

The style is characterized by " ringing strings " and syncopated rhythms.

French regional cuisine is characterized by its extreme diversity and style.

The term " gonzo " has also come into ( sometimes pejorative ) use to describe journalism that is in the vein of Thompson's style, characterized by a drug-fueled stream of consciousness writing technique.

Hildegard's compositional style is characterized by soaring melodies, often well outside of the normal range of chant at the time.

Amidst constant innovation in information and communication technologies, hierarchical authority structures are giving way to greater decision-making latitude for individuals and more flexible definitions of job activities and this new style of work presents a challenge to existing organizational forms, with some research studies contrasting traditional organizational forms against groups that operate as online communities that are characterized by personal motivation and the satisfaction of making one's own decisions.

Pei was inspired by the innovative designs of the new International style, characterized by simplified form and the use of glass and steel materials.

Including Journey's End ( 1930 ), Whale directed a dozen films for Universal Studios between 1930 and 1936, developing a style characterized by the influence of German Expressionism and a highly mobile camera.

These artists had matured under the influence of the High Renaissance, and their style has been characterized as a reaction or exaggerated extension of it.

Viewed as an aspect of speech and writing, metaphor qualifies as style, in particular, style characterized by a type of analogy.

The vocal approach is characterized by a lack of variety ; shifts in pitch, volume, or intonational style are relatively infrequent.

A distinctive style of punk, characterized by superfast, aggressive beats, screaming vocals, and often politically aware lyrics, began to emerge in 1978 among bands scattered around the United States and Canada.

The book has been characterized as " little more than a collection of newspaper clippings laced together with Patterson's circus-poster style prose.

The Hephzibah Menuhin-Amadeus Quartet ( Angel ) and Victor Babin-Festival Quartet ( RCA Victor ) editions give us superlative string playing ( both in symphonic style ) crippled by unimaginative piano playing.

He had style: he held his reins in a loose bunch at the third button of his checked Epsom surtout, and when the horses leaned at a curve, as if bent by the force of a gale, he leaned with them.

The focus of novelty in this world now lay in the south-eastern districts of the Greek mainland, and by 800 virtually the entire Aegean, always excepting its northern shores, had accepted the Geometric style of pottery.

Quite other feelings are evidenced by this style: Af Note the drop to pitch 1 ( the lowest ) on mother with no rise at the end of the sentence ; ;

My hotel rooms on the trip were arranged by Masu and the Japan Travel Bureau and were more elegant than I would have chosen, but it was fun for once to be elegant -- I did explain to the students, however, that this was not my usual style, for their salaries are very small, and it seemed out of place for me to be housed so well.

Mantle so appreciated Miller's delicate literary style that he broadened teammates' minds by reading sensitive passages aloud during road trips.

Of many passages in the book that exemplify the author's vivid style, the characterizations of the two plebeian dictators whose crimes make those of crowned autocrats pale by comparison may be selected.

The Constantinois Malouf style is saved by musician from whom Mohamed Tahar Fergani is one of the best performers.

Andalusian so-called Algerian classical music is a musical style that was reported in Algeria by Andalusian refugees who fled the inquisition of the Christian Kings from the 11th century, it will develop considerably in the cities of the North of the Algeria.

Several singers of the aurès mountains were inspired by this style as Youcef Boukhantech.

This style was also influenced by Western music such as rock, reggae and the funk.

The type is represented by neo-Attic Imperial Roman copies of the late 1st or early 2nd century, modelled upon a supposed Greek bronze original made in the second quarter of the 5th century BCE, in a style similar to works of Polykleitos but more archaic.

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.

The Hebrew and Nabataean alphabets, as they stood by the Roman era, were little changed in style from the Imperial Aramaic alphabet.

Spassky won the first game as Black in good style, but tenacious, aggressive play from Karpov secured him overall victory by + 4 − 1 = 6.

The sum, difference, product and quotient of two algebraic numbers is again algebraic ( this fact can be demonstrated using the resultant ), and the algebraic numbers therefore form a field, sometimes denoted by A ( which may also denote the adele ring ) or < span style =" text-decoration: overline ;"> Q </ span >.

But by the 1500s Mannerism had overtaken the Renaissance and it was this style that caught on in Europe.

In the 18th century, Baroque Art was replaced by the more elegant and elaborate Rococo style.

Hence the Rococo style was highly dominated by the feminine taste and influence.

Characterized by elegant and refined yet playful subject matters, Boucher's style became the epitome of the court of Louis XV.

One uncommon alternative is " Usonian ", which usually describes a certain style of residential architecture designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.