Sentence examples for refusal of style from inspiring English sources

What Cavafy came up with was less a style than a refusal of style.

He sincerely believed that Nestorius was undermining the purity of the faith; Nestorius' refusal to style Mary as Mother of God seemed to Cyril to deny the unity of the God-man.

On the positive side, his refusal of a signature style is evidence of his anti-authoritarian instincts.

Writers of an ironic temperament revere it for the qualities that have alienated the larger reading public: its arduous purity of style; its uncompromising pessimism, free of cant; and its refusal to ennoble human nature.

Out of style.

Chicago Manual of Style.

Our refusal to condemn is a refusal of this notion.

The style of Where The Wild Things Are is very precise and firm - boldly drawn hair and leaves, almost dry in its refusal of whimsy.

Truthfulness means a refusal of eloquence.

Another was the refusal of developing countries to be steamrollered.

He left despite his lord's refusal of permission.