Sentence examples for plainness of style from inspiring English sources

Whereas McGuane's early novels are noted for their stylistic extravagance, a growing plainness of style developed in his later novels.

The thirties, though they had their own load of sentimentality, were the hardest-headed period of American movies, and their plainness of style, with its absence of false "cultural" overtones, has never got its due aesthetically.

Because of the plainness of my own style, I am a sucker for sentences with any sort of zingy rhetorical flourish.

The extreme plainness of Lustiger's style, in this straightforward translation by Rebecca Morrison, is reminiscent of Bernhard Schlink's in "The Reader," but the cumulative effect of the names, dates, anecdotes and lists of objects makes "The Inventory" a far more powerful reading experience.

Trop., of style, simplicity, plainness, want of ornament (post-Aug).: quid Periclea?

She keeps her head shaved close now, a style that improves the plainness of face she inherited from me.

The plainness of this prose has the same difficult scrupulousness as the most baroque good style; both are poles apart from the slapdash notation of a lazy shorthand.

In his book The Psychology of Clothes, published in 1930, the psychologist and fashion historian JC Flugel explored the culturally enforced plainness of men's clothing.

Although credited by some as a fair "cops and robbers -style throbbers -styleism has been directhrillerts standard of scriticismand editing, its plainness of set design and its low budget.

The plainness of the title speaks volumes.

Apatow directs Hader to achieve a bracing plainness of affect.