Sentence examples for habitual style from inspiring English sources
Michael gave us the tour, in his habitual style ("Um — pinball machine").
That goal, however, is incompatible with Auster's habitual style, which is a top-down, summarizing narration that closes like a fist around the proceedings.
Other viewers will feel that his habitual style, drawn as tight as a puppet string, is already so firmly tethered that it begs for the presence of tangible actors.
He is a carpenter and an irritable, exacting but fair task-master to his shiftless teenage apprentices; but he seems strangely curious about one lad assigned to his charge, and the secret between man and boy is played out in the Dardennes' habitual style - cloudy days, dull suburban locations and hand-held shots coming in very close to the principals' heads and faces.
Repeatedly in these 25 essays, his eye singles out those moments where writers outdo themselves, transcending their own habitual style, such as Alan Hollinghurst describing in The Line of Beauty how "Above the trees and rooftops the dingy glare of the London sky faded upwards into weak violet heights".
Minimising can either be an event-driven response or reflect a habitual style of minimising unpleasant events (Garssen and Remie, 2004).
Dispositional optimism and pessimism are habitual styles of expecting good or bad outcomes in life and therefore can be regarded as a dispositional bias in expectation.
Participant 11 (Group 3), manual desk, support/administrative role A number of staff instead linked their preferences and productivity whilst sitting or standing to their habitual styles and past modes of working.
For example, researchers have argued that people have stable cognitive styles or "typical or habitual mode(s) of problem solving, thinking, perceiving, and remembering" that shape how they think and learn (Riding and Cheema 1991, p. 194).
I have laughed when they look so clever and talk about being on the right track" - and Gladstone's habitual prose style.
Patients are helped to notice when they're worrying, to interrupt this habitual thinking style, and then try alternative ways of reacting to life's problems.
