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.

Most often, the term describes those who create within a context of the fine arts or ' high culture ', activities such as drawing, painting, sculpture, acting, dancing, writing, filmmaking, photography, and music — people who use imagination, talent, or skill to create works that may be judged to have an aesthetic value.

In " The Philosophy of Composition ", an essay in which Poe describes his method in writing " The Raven ", he claims to have strictly followed this method.

Fisher, who describes her writing about food as follows:

Jordanes, a Goth writing in Italy in 551, a century after the collapse of the Hunnic Empire, describes the Huns as a " savage race, which dwelt at first in the swamps, a stunted, foul and puny tribe, scarcely human, and having no language save one which bore but slight resemblance to human speech.

Orthography thus describes or defines the set of symbols used in writing a language, and the rules about how to use those symbols.

Thought disorder describes an underlying disturbance to conscious thought and is classified largely by its effects on speech and writing.

" Whedon openly wonders why his identification figure is a woman, but describes it as " a real autobiographical kind of therapy for me " to be writing a strong female character like Buffy.

Helen McCullough describes Murasaki's writing as of universal appeal and believes The Tale of Genji " transcends both its genre and age.

Baran describes his working environment at RAND, as well as his initial interest in survivable communications, and the evolution, writing and distribution of his eleven-volume work, " On Distributed Communications.

The Science Museum ( London ) describes it merely as " the first writing mechanism whose invention was documented ," but even that claim may be excessive, since Turri's invention pre-dates it.

Clark describes Fort's writing style as a " distinctive blend of mocking humor, penetrating insight, and calculated outrageousness ".

Author John Leland describes an etymology, writing that the term is a modern survival of an English verb —" to dozen "— dating back at least to the fourteenth century and meaning " to stun, stupefy, daze " or " to make insensible, torpid, powerless ".

Nikolaus Pevsner, writing in the 1960s, referred to Gaudi's buildings as growing " like sugar loaves and anthills " and describes the ornamenting of buildings with shards of broken pottery as possibly " bad taste " but handled with vitality and " ruthless audacity ".

Grahn describes " play " as the granting of autonomy and agency to the readers or audience: " rather than the emotional manipulation that is a characteristic of linear writing, Stein uses play.

He describes serious injuries, his painful recovery and his struggle to start writing again.

Essayist John Bayley describes her writing at this time as " grim, spare and laconic ".

Mack develops the thesis that this was the earliest writing about Jesus, developed over decades by a community which he describes with unwavering confidence.

The Arab geographer al-Muqaddasi writing in 985, describes Tiberias as a hedonistic city afflicted by heat :-' For two months they dance ; for two months they gobble ; for two months they swat ; for two months they go about naked ; for two months they play thje reed flute ; and for two months they wallow in the mud.

Alcuin, writing about a century after Oswiu's death, describes him as " very just, with equitable laws, unconquered in battle but trustworthy in peace, generous in gifts to the wretched, pious, equitable to all ".

He describes the creation of his next novel, The Entrance to Porlock, as follows: "… the labor of writing which was so painful that I find it hard, even now, to see beyond the memory of the pain to whatever merit it may have.

Ortved — using interviews with writers Bob Kushell and Brent Forrester and Mirkin's assistant Charleen Easton — describes Mirkin as an " outsider " on the show, with the writing staff, at least initially, divided with respect to Mirkin's comedy and leadership style.

In her epistle dedication to Sir Charles Cavendish, her brother in law, Cavendish compares writing poetry to spinning and describes poetry as mental spinning.

The honest Tory must face what he tells and implies, and the honest Socialist must face him, too .” Douglas Goldring, writing in Fortnightly in April 1937, describes the book as “ beautiful ” and “ disturbing ,” and like Miles highly recommends that both conservatives and socialists read it.

Henry Flanders, writing in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, describes Hale during his lifetime as " the most learned, the most able, the most honorable man to be found in the profession of the law ".