Sentence examples similar to stricken style from inspiring English sources

The deliberate imperfections, irregular surfaces and up-and-down hemlines strike style watchers as an antidote to overexposed and overtly commercial Western styles.

But once he returned, dressed in the requisite white, he found that grass-court tennis actually suited his quick-strike style.

Obama has commuted the sentences of roughly 90 offenders, the bulk of whom were incarcerated under 3-strike style laws and/or mandatory minimum sentencing requirements.

Harris's project is to strike a style of writing appropriate to both rock and politics, and he generally succeeds.

The strike-style "morale" banners that some patients' relatives hang up outside the hospital remind Margherita subliminally of the placards in her movie, and she is plagued with cinematically vivid bad dreams about her personal history, from one of which she awakens to a domestic situation in her flat which she (and we, the audience) at first think must be a bad dream as well.

He struck Elvis-style poses during uptempo numbers from "Graceland" and gestured campily while crooning cocktail-blues songs like "One Man's Ceiling Is Another Man's Floor".

A "miserable little [church]... built in a rough and poverty-stricken style", it had a leaking roof and was already decaying by 1874, and was replaced by the present structure, begun in 1876 and consecrated on 12 June 1878.

What was striking was the style and manner in which he brought it about.

His management style struck some clergy as secretive and imperious.

Ryan's style strikes most players as counterintuitive.

Hernandez, a right-hander and native of Venezuela, did it in style, striking out five of Tampa Bay's last six batters.