They can lubricate comprehension, reduce misunderstanding, provide a stable platform for the development of style and grace, and signal that a writer has exercised care in crafting a passage.
All of the Sophists appear to have provided a training in rhetoric and in the art of speaking, and the Sophistic movement, responsible for large advances in rhetorical theory, contributed greatly to the development of style in oratory.
Patronage throughout this period was mainly in the hands of the emperors and great princes of the church; and the form of liturgical plate and reliquaries, altar crosses, and the like underwent no fundamental change; Ottonian work of the later 10th and 11th centuries can be distinguished from that of the 9th only in the development of style.
Deila spoke of player development, of style and philosophy, but he also seemed aware of the need for substance, too.
Fine Arts – Research the history of Mississippi Delta and the development of different styles of music in the region.
The 1990's saw the development of curatorial styles that complicated the idea of art as a cultural category and emphasized its social and political dimensions.
Innovations in information technologies have facilitated the development of new styles of research networks and forms of governance.
But in the early 2000s, these online communities (like Hollerboard for example) played a larger role in the development of producers' styles, as well as fostering emergent genres and scenes throughout the music industry.
A few historians, like Gunther Schuller and Gary Giddins, have offered overviews of the development of trombone style in jazz.
