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- noun Excessive
concern orpreoccupation withstyle
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Examples
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It cannot be improved upon, so why try? yes i may seem like a fanboy, but i belive that film has a perfect balance of action, philossophy and stylism.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Norrington flies with ‘Crow’ franchise 2008
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Rosetta Romano's office was a large white space of modem stylism.
The Bellini Bride Reid, Michelle 2002
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A writer who is confident need not prove anything, need not try to grab attention with spates of stylism or hyperbole or melodrama.
The First Five Pages Noah Lukeman 2000
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A writer who is confident need not prove anything, need not try to grab attention with spates of stylism or hyperbole or melodrama.
The First Five Pages Noah Lukeman 2000
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A writer who is confident need not prove anything, need not try to grab attention with spates of stylism or hyperbole or melodrama.
The First Five Pages Noah Lukeman 2000
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One would hardly think of Homer Martin's "Border of the Seine" landscape in the Metropolitan Museum, hardly more then than now, and it leaves many a painter flat in appreciation of its great dignity, austerity, reserve, and for the distinguished quality of its stylism.
Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets Marsden Hartley
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Few of the Renaissance students had the critical acumen of Cheke, and they fell therefore an easy prey to the stylism of the later Latin writers, with its antithesis and extravagance.
John Lyly John Dover Wilson 1925
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His stylism does not clog his story or cumber his argument.
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It creates atmosphere, like the affected stylism of much of Oscar Wilde's text, with its Oriental imagery borrowed from "The Song of Solomon," diluted and sophisticated; it gives emotional significance to situations, helping the facial play of Salome and her gestures to proclaim the workings of her mind, when speech has deserted her; it is at its best as the adjunct and inspiration of the lascivious dance.
Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time Henry Edward Krehbiel 1888
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The singer also explained some details about the stylism for the grand final, featuring warm colors, accordingly with the song and Spain,
esctoday.com | news 2009
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