Sentence examples for elevated style from inspiring English sources

There is also a more elevated style.

Even in an elevated style, this kind of fiction feels utterly worn out.

Their elevated style eventually came under criticism as unnatural and occasionally absurd.

The Iliad and the Odyssey are primary examples of the epic narrative, which in antiquity was a long narrative poem, in an elevated style, celebrating heroic achievement.

And with his direct and austere yet elevated style, well captured in the new translation by Pamela Mensch, he was a consummate literary artist.

Having studied for the law, he soon became a dominant figure among the Condoreira (Condor) school of poets, likened, for their dedication to lofty causes and for their preference for elevated style, to the highest flying birds in the Americas.

Done in the elevated, high-flown style known as Grand Manner, it depicts the subject in a perky red bolero bodice with flared sleeves, standing next to a Chickering piano with her hand on a sheet of music, evidence of her culture and refinement.

Riefenstahl took to the elevated styles of modern dance then popular in Berlin, cultivating the aura of a barefoot priestess, even when costumed in a silver lamé leotard under transparent (but ethereally floating) chiffon.

"Mixology" is the best of a bad lot, a coinage that harks back to the overripe, mock-elevated style used by writers like H. L. Mencken, Herbert Asbury and Lucius Beebe, for whom drinks were inevitably "libations," "tinctures" or "potions".

Throughout Paradise Lost Milton uses a grand style aptly suited to the elevated subject matter and tone.

The piece also invoked Australian shuttered architecture, including fire-watching towers, in its elevated "treehouse" style.