"The dedication, like the pervasive style, calls into serious question the status of 'Twelve Years a Slave' as autobiography and/or literature," Mr. Olney wrote.
I was a serial over-dresser and my look didn't mesh with the popular and pervasive "style" of leggings, scrunchies, oversize sweatshirts, white socks and sneakers.
Thanks to Destiny's Child and to Experience Unlimited's 1988 hit "Da Butt, Jennifer Lopezz as a Fly Girl on "In Living Color," and Sir Mix-a-Lot's 1992 rap "Baby Got Back"—big butts became big business, and the emblem of a pervasive colored style.
After about 1500 a number of factors turned against the pervasive Northern style, not least the rise of Italian art, whose commercial appeal began to rival Netherlandish art by 1510, and overtook it some ten years later.
Baldessari systematically rejected the pervasive L.A. style, oft called "the cool school," and likewise rejected the philosophies of New York conceptualists Joseph Kosuth and Sol Lewitt, opting instead for his own unique visual language that defies categorization, but is irrefutably John Baldessari.
That nearly every reviewer felt the need to contextualize their response to Illmatic within the frame of West Coast G-Funk "is a reminder of just how pervasive the style was within the hip hop world and the music community as a whole".
This style, sometimes also called the New London Vernacular, is now the pervasive way of designing everything from large speculative housing blocks to thoughtful arts centres.
This approach became the pervasive trend in the west, notably through the views of John Claudius Loudon, whose Encyclopaedia of Gardening (1822) set the pattern of domestic cultivation over a long period with a style known as Gardenesque.
Zweig registered, with creative joy, his psychic constrictions just before self-obsession became an all-pervasive cultural style.
The figure reflects a management style pervasive in Latvia that an author argues is fuelling the success of women in the workplace.
For all that was made of it, Ms. Farrow's "elegant pixie," as it was officially called, did not have the pervasive influence on style that is associated with other celebrated blondes.
