In the 26 essays included here -- concentrating on major 20th-century authors like Franz Kafka, Joseph Brodsky, Jorge Luis Borges, Salman Rushdie, A. S. Byatt, Naguib Mahfouz, Doris Lessing and Nadine Gordimer -- Coetzee wields a sharp scalpel, carefully exposing the stylistic flaws, theoretical shortcuts and, on occasion, bad faith of writers he otherwise admires.
Nor is this merely a stylistic flaw from which editing could have saved Goldhagen: the repetitiveness matches the general manner of the book.
Perhaps the book's chief stylistic flaw is the author's tendency to slip into the period jingoism he sets out to critique: plucky "doughboys" battle it out page after page with "the Boche" or "the Hun".
The new cathedral makes a deep impression ... [Every detail] looks impressive and eminent: Not the slightest stylistic flaw could be seen or detected.
The first flaw was stylistic.
The way her performers would make a point of forcing themselves to do adagios, turns and jumps — drawing to your attention all the muscular, stylistic and technical imperfections that obviously flawed the dancers as ballet technicians — was part of the extraordinary masochism she often placed onstage.
Ms. Moller Kareman tries to conceal stylistic defects, which is the play's most damaging flaw, by highlighting content as if it were beyond cliché.
His book is a formidable gathering of small facts and big ideas, and the narrative portions are particularly strong, informed by real empathy for both his named and his nameless characters, flawed only sporadically by portentousness and small stylistic lapses.
If they couldn't spot the analytical flaws, they might have done something about the stylistic ones that range from curious analogies to long phrases in parentheses.
Writing in the New York Times, Joyce Carol Oates declared that "the 1946 text, for all its flaws, is superior to the 'restored' text, which primarily restores distracting stylistic tics and the self-consciously mythic name Willie Talos, which Warren had dropped in favour of the more plausible Willie Stark.
Shooting on 16-millimeter film and using a cast drawn largely from local theater groups, Mr. McElhinney has created a movie that is not without the flaws endemic in low-budget productions but still projects an amazing degree of stylistic assurance and originality.
