Mr. Frank, who is best known for adapting the Elmore Leonard novel "Out of Sight" for Steven Soderbergh, has a clean, purposeful directing style, particularly in the quick-cut sequences that show Chris shambling through his daily routine.
In an industry rife with debate over fashion's place and an almost purposeful lack of style, Mitchell's white utilitarian jumpsuit and Off-White Converse were a refreshing ― and trendy ― change of pace.
Ms. Lopatkina is the Mariinsky's equivalent of City Ballet's Wendy Whelan: an invariably intelligent, experienced and purposeful dancer whose style and physicality are seldom flattered by the most exposing high-classical repertory.
The experience was like watching an intimate ensemble drama, enacted in a style of purposeful ugliness.
But the complexity is in the style, the purposeful invention across the beat.
A good crosser and a fine header of a ball, he will cause headaches for more illustrious opponents who are not au fait with his style and purposeful movement.
But in Mr. Ratmansky's recent production of "The Nutcracker," it looked like not just a company but also a family: unified in performing and acting style, happily purposeful, imaginatively engaged, full of strikingly individual performances that were harmonious parts of a vivid whole.
I do not understand this shunning of traditional aspects of our roles and I don't think it should be handled as a purposeful reversal in our parenting styles.
Barney Frank, the liberal Massachusetts congressman, also contrasted Reagan's "more purposeful" agenda with Obama's "technocratic" style, and said that Obama "would have been better off with a more adversarial approach" toward pharmaceutical firms, insurance companies, and banks.
The problem is that its style seems capricious on purpose, rather than intrinsically purposeful, and much of it is awfully pretentious.
