Sentence examples for style dropped from inspiring English sources

In the days when all senior executives were men, the division of labor was clear: He got the title, the paycheck, the boardroom battles, the ulcer; she planned the dinner parties, kept house in fitting style, dropped old friends to keep pace with his rising social requirements, traveled at the drop of a first-class plane ticket.

He claimed that Senna's foot-tapping style with the accelerator helped keep the RA109-E's revs up in the engine's mid-range where most of the power was, while Prost's smoother style dropped the engines into low revs where they had a pick-up problem.

This season, facing much criticism about her clumsy technique, Jones decided to simplify her style, dropping any pretense at technical expertise and relying on her speed to jump far.

Mr. Schrader, working from a script credited to Michael Gerbosi, chronicles Crane's life in standard bio-pic style, dropping in a few flourishes like beyond-the-grave voice-over narration and a nightmarish hallucination sequence, during which Hogan's fictional predicaments merge with Crane's disorderly life off the set.

While Mr. McNamara adapts a self-serving pose of perfect candor and aw-shucks guilelessness, Mr. Morris counters with a slyly distanced style, dropping in sarcastic asides (doom-laden music cues or cutaways to apocalyptic newsreel footage) that chisel at Mr. McNamara's authority without overtly challenging anything he has to say.

In that way, all those who contributed mixes to Animal Collective Radio YouMix are carrying this tradition forward, incorporating the timeless radio style drops heard all over Animal Collective's new album Centipede Hz.

Another report, by the NPD Group, noted that overall retail sales of men's wear, an industry gravely troubled by the slow economy and the shift to casual styles, dropped $4 billion in 2001 from the previous year, but the youngest shoppers represent a bright spot.

After U.S. equity funds were adjusted for impurities relative to their benchmarks, the number of funds that beat the benchmark in poorly performing styles dropped considerably.

In the spot called "Bad Son" a tired-looking mother who is badly in need of hair styling drops some kind of lumpy noodle concoction onto each family member's plate, as she instructs the children to eat their peas.

3D printers may be getting all the hype right now, but an Israeli hardware startup called Zuta Labs wants to inject some particles of excitement back into 2D printing — by turning the standard 2D printer box into a mobile robot that rolls across paper free-style, dropping ink like a road-surface marker inks white lines.

More elegantly, tweeters have taken to all-caps or all-lowercase styling, dropping the punctuation for a sly deadpan delivery. .