Meaning of nonstyle | Babel Free

Definitions

That which is not a style; lack of style.

countable, uncountable

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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