literary style
collocation in Englishmeaningsofliteraryandstyle
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literary
adjective
uk/ˈlɪt.ər.ər.i/us/ˈlɪt̬.ə.rer.i/
relating to literature (= written artistic works, especially those with a high and lasting ...
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style
noun
uk/staɪl/us/staɪl/
a way of doing something, especially one that is typical of a person, group of people, place, ...
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(Definition ofliteraryandstylefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofliterary style
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For such readers, the book provides a wealth of important insights, although itsliterarystyleis, at times, perplexing.
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It has a well-written text with a goodliterarystyle, which makes the book easy to read and digest.
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Each of these levels of the analysis ofliterarystylehas a parallel in the analysis of scientific style.
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He is not only thoroughly at home with the subject, but one who is well-known for the quality of hisliterarystyle.
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How does theliterarystylerender the exotic?
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This book focuses on how the development of experimental language in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries impacted onliterarystyle.
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Theliterarystyleis lucid and most engaging.
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Rhetoric is not seen either as a study ofliterarystylewhile ignoring substance.
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That is, while keeping a chronological structure for each annal, he wrote narrative prose at length inliterarystyleand embellished the facts with his own reflections and strong opinions.
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Other written documents belonging to that period tend to lack in speech-like features and show elaborate structure and at times a high degree ofliterarystyle.
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Hutchinson writes clear, intelligible prose, but he has aliterarystyleand sensibility that often make his points elusive and his position difficult to summarize.
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It is a fruitful time for such a focus as advances in technology and travel have increased diasporas, causing changes in language andliterarystyleat a rapid rate.
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Far from renouncing theliterarystyleof his introduction, his purported apologia instead vividly and dramatically introduces yet another character and her emotional response to his inexplicable, persistent silence.
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Aliterarystyleis almost impossible to listen to.
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Nor is it surprising that theliterarystyleof that reply so often indicates that it has been written by a civil servant.
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Whatever we may think of his political activities, we all recognise his fineliterarystyle.
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I support the amendment as a matter ofliterarystyle.
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I congratulate them not just because the report addresses an important subject and produces arresting evidence and conclusions, but on the felicity of itsliterarystyle.
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I do not suppose that that is intended as a criticism of theliterarystyleof the statement, so we need to look a little deeper.
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