Sentence examples for style conventions from inspiring English sources
Several other rule text changes were made to add clarity on small points or to conform to Style conventions.
In addition to the earlier version by David Gries, he incorporated many of the official style conventions outlined in PEP 257.
The tall wooden Buddha, its features time-smoothed almost to invisibility and its figure in profile like a parenthesis, reflects post-Gupta style conventions current on the subcontinent in the sixth century.
The term "forfeiture order" was substituted, where possible, for the wordier "order of forfeiture". Other small stylistic changes (such as the insertion of "the" in subpart titles) were also made to conform to the style conventions.
In a performance space, these turn into rules of genre and style, conventions about what stories are worth telling, beliefs about what can or can't be said and done openly; what makes for a happy, unhappy or suitably ambiguous response.
Reading with a literary critic's eye for nuances of style, convention, and intertextual allusion, Tamar Boyadjian shows the historical and historiographical stakes of the shifting representations of Jerusalem in the century from the First Crusaders' conquest of 1099 to the founding of the Armenian kingdom of Cilicia at the close of the twelfth century and beyond.
There he satirized the International style convention of a suspended, nonstructural glass facade by playfully replacing it with retractable glazing and an outer, two-story-high, white fabric curtain that wraps around the two street elevations and can be pulled back to fully open the interior in warm weather.
It's a style convention — an American style convention.
On the other hand, old-style conventions, for all their flaws, demanded compromise that is essential for governing.
One ought not get too misty-eyed about the old-style conventions, with their handful of power brokers pulling the strings.
Mr. Allam, a strapping fellow who wears his dresses with sincerity, and Mr. Quast traffic charmingly in the old-style conventions of the British music hall and melodrama.
