Sentence examples for stiff styles from inspiring English sources

The fashion show, too, was something else, devised extravagantly in deliberate defiance of the formal lines and stiff styles of the haute couture of the day.

And it's fun to see Michael West, the most skilled mimic of the group, apply the respectively loose and stiff styles of Bill Clinton and Al Gore to basic Broadway show steps, in one case becoming both simultaneously.

Tyler conjured a future reader who smiles at The sprawling letters, yellow text, The formal phrase, the bald stiff style.

Tyler conjured a future reader who smiles at The sprawling letters, yellow text, The formal phrase, the bald stiff style..

He executed many paintings on the sliding panels of the Reiun-in monastery in Kyōto, where he decorated three rooms with landscapes painted in the styles of three different Chinese masters: the soft ink-wash style of Mu-ch'i Fa-ch'ang (late 12th early 13th century); the hard, stiff style of Hsia Kuei (1195 1224); and the broken ink style of Yü Chien (c. 1230).

Many fans and commentators praised his working stiff style, with some dubbing him "Darvin Gump", a reference to the underdog protagonist of the 1994 drama film, Forrest Gump.

Coypel's first teacher was his father, Antoine, whose somewhat stiff artistic style he perpetuated.

His generally stiff speaking style makes him anything but an inspiring political leader.

The campaign pitted the Fujimori family's brand of rightwing populism against Kuczynski's elite background and stiff technocratic style.

But perhaps because of a tendency toward hesitation and a stiff political style, he missed his chances.

In climactic moments Ms. Calloway's pitch turned insecure as she struggled to project over swelling strings; Steven Mackey's electric-guitar scrabbles and growls; and stiff, rock-style drumming.