These 13 episodes honor a certain kind of high style from which some people have never recovered.
They all come to get a dose of sonic perfection — delivered in high style — from the incomparable San Francisco men's chorus, which performs an assortment of Renaissance polyphony, seasonal carols, and spirituals amid the majestic intimacy of the Medieval Sculpture Hall.
More high style from a hardware store!
The text leaps from primitive to folk to high styles: from stone hut facades carved with reliefs of fertility goddesses, to sea captains' parlors lined with riotously colorful painted panels, to the Athens town house of the archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, where the murals appropriately show cupids excavating ancient statuary.
Let us rejoice, then, bundled up in our Blonde On Blonde scarves and cold-weather beards, in this the latest long winter of our discontent, and check-in to The Hotel Andersonia where we will shelter in high style for a 99 minute respite from the ordinary, and the brutes and the vulgarians that lord over it.
Many exponents of this "high" style came from the Balkan provinces of the Ottoman Empire.
High style derives from aristocratic, which is to say military, ideals of pride, stoicism, hardness, swagger, and snobbery — of trial by ordeal and tournament chic.
"But now high styles come from low places, from people who have no power, who slink away from it, in fact, who are marginal, who carve out worlds for themselves in nether depths, in tainted undergrounds".
Her effect was nearly that of Coco Chanel in fashion; Belperron's sculptural shapes anticipated modern design and, like Chanel, she showed that high style could come from unfancy elements.
Since at least the days of Teddy Roosevelt, affluent Easterners have gone back to the land in high style, buying ranches from New Mexico to North Dakota.
Men get their skulls bashed with gun butts, and get thrown out of cars, but, despite all the violence, the movie is aesthetically shaped and slightly distanced by the pictorial verve of gangland effrontery the public aggression that Mann makes inseparable from high style.
