Sentence examples for cultivated style from inspiring English sources

She was first sponsored by her father's church, Union Baptist, a citadel of the Talented Tenth, where spirituals were sung in a cultivated style.

Where Anderson's emotional realm is essentially aristocratic (great emotions emerge from an exquisitely cultivated style), Malick's is democratic (his lofty notion of style arises from common and widely shared feelings).

And it is true that in New York, at least, modernism had long borne the image of cultivated style in which the mass public would be educated by an informed elite.

In Anderson's film, the images, the editing, the soundtrack, and the dialogue match and heighten the cultivated style and exacting connoisseurship on which the story and its protagonist run.

Abandoning Britten and Graham's carefully cultivated style, Mr. Morris is looking for a fresh core of truth in a work that can sometimes seem a labyrinth of stilted artifice.

Before Louis's innovations, the split between court dancing, with its carefully cultivated style and patterns of movement, and the less refined peasant dances was already marked, but from this point the gap between professional and amateur dance in Europe really came into being.

The cultivated Greek style is notable for numerous figures of speech and references to both the Old and New Testaments and to other sources.

Indeed, the most elegant Mozart piano playing is rarely tied to nationality and can come from just about anywhere, be it Japan (Mitsuko Uchida) or Russia (Alexei Lubimov), almost as if the cultivated Viennese style has covered the Earth like a thin layer of sweet schlag.

Soothing voices deliver news reports in deadpan style with a cultivated British accent.

Though he has maintained the cultivated informality of Mr. Wadsworth's style, he has refined it somewhat.

Halsey said that since the Civil War it had been difficult to maintain the style of service to which cultivated Southerners were accustumed.