stylism
Whether style is viewed as spiritual, fraudulent, or something in between, any concept of style that treats it as optional is inadequate not only to writing but to any human action. Nothing we do can be done “simply” and in no style, because style is something inherent in action, not something added to it. In this respect, style is like the
... See moreTurner, Mark, Thomas, Francis-Noël • Clear and Simple as the Truth
Since Auerbach’s measure of stylistic maturity values writing to the extent that it penetrates through local and individual human purpose to historicist truth, he naturally discounts the individual purposes of writers as impediments to the representation of truth. The more a writer includes and the less he selects according to his own purpose, the
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A style is a convention guiding the usage and arrangement of certain perceptual attributes such as visual elements, sound, and taste.
What is Culture? Part Six: Defining cultural phenomena
Style is what happens as a result of how you solve a given problem.
Brian McDonald • The Golden Theme
Style is in no way a decoration as some people believe; it is not even a matter of technique; it is—as color is with painters— a quality of vision, the revelation of the particular universe which each of us sees, and which others do not see. The pleasure that an artist gives us is to make us know one universe more.
Marcel Proust
The magic of style lies in how it transforms a rule into personal expression.
Style is all about delivery, and it is a blend of clarity, kindness, and refinement. Your Style is about purity of expression, and requires you overcome the human tendency to imitate others. Style also has a direct relationship to substance, and it needs to complement it and match it, just as one must feel good in the clothes that one wears. Your
... See moreRichard Rudd • Prosperity: A guide to your Pearl Sequence (The Gene Keys Golden Path Book 3)
All of the features of classic style pertain: the motive is truth, the purpose is presentation, the scene is informal, language is adequate, truth can be known, speaker and hearer are competent, and so on.