During the middle decades of the 20th century, when contemporary music fell into warring stylistic camps, Constant remained above the ideological fray and was consequently brushed aside.
Apart from the innumerable such masterstrokes, all of which support the frequent contention that Mr. Cunningham is the greatest of living choreographers, the Beacon Event on Saturday was also a constant display of the stylistic particularities of Cunningham dancing.
His only stylistic vice is his constant apologising, for which, in the first sentence of the book, he apologises.
If, as he notes, "every art form has a limited lifespan, and a moment when it will simply not allow for any further experimentation or novelty", then the threat of obsolescence hanging over so short-term a phenomenon as pop is greater still, requiring constant infusions of new blood and stylistic trickery.
Hass's wish to make poems resemble the world as closely as possible (his often remarked stylistic "clarity") has been a constant in his method from the start; what has changed is not the style but the vision of the world.
Among the stylistic elements were the near-constant movement with hand-held Super 16 cameras to give the show a naturalistic documentary look and an editing style involving jump cuts that was unusual for television at the time.
The arithmetical oddity, the color schemes, the spatial patterns, the different stylistic idioms and images, and the constant high energy all make us feel that drastically dissimilar forces are at work here.
A comparable kind of personal fixation about origins as well as destinies can be seen coursing through Dreyer's entire oeuvre, arguably accounting for its slow-burning intensity and many of its formal and stylistic eccentricities as well as its thematic constants.
The highly respected Joe Queenan mentioned in his article "Ghosts in the Machine" (March 20) that I had produced "a steady stream of classics" with "stylistic seamlessness" and that the "voice" of my books remained noticeably constant to the point of being an "astonishing achievement".
Although Mr. Missé is one of the foremost virtuoso dancers of our day, of any genre, a constant factor in his and Ms. Centurión's dancing is its sense of rich stylistic purity.
