Nonstyle

"Nonstyle" in a Sentence (5 examples)

Despite the findings of recent critics, who have taken issue with the word, disputing its appropriateness to realism, this perception of the characteristic style of realism as a nonstyle has nevertheless been hard to dislodge.

Dada and Surrealism and other nonstyles

His nonstyle is painfully evident when he is less than inspired: the "Faust" overture: empty bombast; the Wesendonck-Lieder: empty sentimentality.

A laissez-faire style, characterized by passive indifference about the task and subordinates, is essentially a nonstyle.

The novel reveals its contradictory theory of representation when the narrator, describing the young Evadne's notebook, praises its style as a nonstyle[…]

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