Example sentences for: stylistic

How can you use “stylistic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A poetic homage, for sure, since the two writers exemplify the stylistic divide between the confessional poets of the postwar United States (count Lowell, Berryman, Jarrell, Sexton, and others) and their more objective British counterparts (think of Hughes, Geoffrey Hill, etc.).

  • Some see Gallo as the heir to Scorsese and the '70s neorealists, with the "audacity and flair of a major filmmaker" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). They applaud his stylistic flourishes (collage shots, freeze frames), his self-deprecating humor, and audacious premise--a newly released prisoner kidnaps a teen tap dancer (Christina Ricci) to be his fake wife.

  • As with Faulkner, the boundaries of Ellison's separate texts may blur, but the mythic force of the buried story and the stylistic virtuosity of its telling will remain.

  • Other critics rave that "one track after another leaps out at you until you've got 11 new favorite songs" (David Gates, Newsweek ), and that it's 1999's "most relentless gas--laughing or otherwise--of a party album" (Chris Wilman, Entertainment Weekly ). One dissenter takes umbrage at Beck's heavy borrowing from black music: Mike Jenkins writes in the Washington Post that the album "can't escape its minstrel-show undercurrents" and that the album's genre-bending "stunts" sink Beck "deeper in stylistic debt than he can ever repay."

  • Later on, he changes the direction of the stylistic switch, and the move along the time scale, by ending with a piece of up-to-date slang:


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