Elsewhere Beckett claimed that he preferred French because it allowed him to write "without style".
Around this time, he began writing in French, in a bid to work, he said, "without style".
Yet writing "without style" is one of the writing styles most difficult to accomplish; you really need to be well equipped to do it.
Much the same goes for the film itself, which may colour inside the lines of the prestige biopic template, but not without style or flashes of beauty.
"Perfume," his 2006 adaptation of Patrick Süskind's novel, might have been dreadful, but it was not without style.
Sheen is never without style, but his Frosty mannerisms are very pronounced for his first scenes, and then they thaw into something more generic, even rather Blair-ish, as befitting a character whom we are ultimately supposed to take very seriously.
The whole plainly anticipates Art Nouveau, but without that style's rote longueurs.
By Peter Schjeldahl Whistler's room anticipates Art Nouveau, but without that style's rote longueurs.
A disastrous step back from his dazzling Bully, this was a manky old underdeveloped script from Harmony Korine that has been knocking about for ages: the usual array of young-flesh money shots and slacker attitude, but without the style or satirical insight.
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