In an introduction, it claims to "ransack America's history," and, Faulkner-style, to show that "the past is never really past".
You know a trend has reached its zenith when David Beckham takes on a style, to show how it should be done.
The novel then steps backwards in time, Pulp Fiction-style, to show the trio moving through a London whose cocaine shimmer barely covers its grottiness and venality.
It uses a Call of Duty gaming style to show the trauma of war from the perspective of a nine-year-old girl, Nima.
He (or, eventually, she) is trying to make the No. 6 train run on time, but is also expected to have some personal flair, some style — to show the world's first city as it sees itself.
By the time the camera pulls back through a bullet hole, peephole-style, to show only a taste of the bodies, splashes of gore, and repeated bursts of light indicating an angel has died and been revived, this fight has made a strong case for itself as the best of the show so far.
Berberian Sound Studio fetishised the process of making a film, but at the same time it also lifted the curtain Wizard of Oz-style to show the artifice behind the illusion.
A few days before, the global grassroots network Students for a Free Tibet had uploaded a parody of "Gangnam Style" to show its support for the Tibetan independence movement.
During the first episode (which featured a cameo appearance from U.S. president Barack Obama), Colbert had his hair cropped in a military style to show his solidarity with the troops.
– "What do you mean, for God's sake?" asked the pitiful young woman, "how is it possible that education and knowledge could make us miserable and destroy our happiness?" At which point it pleased him to reply: "Because the style of the Italian novella is unique in its beauty and vitality, and because our love has no such style to show for itself.
