Sentence examples for rules of style from inspiring English sources

Sure, to the average reader such rules of style may be invisible.

One of the cardinal rules of style is omit needless words.

Rules of style and presentation were bulldozed by her imperatives of emotional and psychological expression.

Fiction requires no special training and can be readable, even absorbing, when it breaks the most elementary rules of style.

While not literary in the formal sense of Renaissance poetics, the Historia verdadera is literature in a modern sense in that it places authenticity above all rules of style or decorum.

I did a quick Google search to find her 10 rules of style and they involve things that I either lack in my wardrobe or don't know how to employ properly.

Traditionally the company has been more willing to break the rules of academic style than its rival in St . Petersburg the Kirov Ballet.

Or the Wilde who dictates rules of sensible style: "The modern, high-heeled boot is, in fact, merely the clog of the time of Henry VI, with the front prop left out, and its inevitable effect is to throw the body forward, to shorten the steps, and consequently to produce that want of grace which always follows want of freedom".

Alter's translation puts into practice his belief that the rules of biblical style require it to reiterate, artfully, within scenes and from scene to scene, a set of "key words," a term Alter derives from Buber and Franz Rosenzweig, who in an epic labor that took nearly 40 years to complete, rendered the Hebrew Bible into a beautifully Hebraicized German.

Anyway, you'll notice that Mr. Payne's grid breaks one of the cardinal rules of American-style crossword construction: some of the letters are unchecked, or are not the same in the Across entry as they are in the Down entry.

In a Sheffield pub in 1963, guitarist Derek Bailey, drummer Tony Oxley and bassist Gavin Bryars (collectively known as Joseph Holbrooke) discovered free jazz influenced by Coleman and John Coltrane, and all over Europe the belief spread that musicians could adapt any materials they liked, rather than being bound by the rules of hardened styles.