His writing mutates at this point into a neo-aristocratic aestheticism dedicated to stylized modes of thought and writing, which present a set of categories — reversibility, the challenge, the duel, — that move Baudrillard's thought toward a form of aristocratic aestheticism and metaphysics.
In mostly forgotten dramas like "The Great God Brown," "Dynamo," "Marco Millions," "The Fountain," and "Strange Interlude," he employed a host of brazenly stylized devices shrinking walls, beating drums, spoken thoughts, ghosts in an attempt to resurrect the spirit of grandeur, ritual, and catharsis of the Greeks.
Perhaps it is best thought of as interrogative art, a series of stylized dialogues that cut through the niceties of social interaction, prompting a concentrated exchange of thoughts.
West 8's winning proposal would bring a stylized, contemporary park to New York City, on a site that many thought would never be developed.
The stylized Mamet language is not meant to express a character's thoughts or emotions, but to deflect attention from them.
Gradually Mr. Jones refined his style, using exaggerated poses to communicate characters' thoughts, a faster pace, razor-sharp timing and cutting and stylized designs influenced by modern art.
In keeping with the rapper's stylized Samsung ads, the Mark Romanek-directed video features more of Jay Z's cerebral thoughts on art.
The high-contrast, angled cinematography by Joseph H. August; the sparing, stylized use of dialogue; the nonstop musical commentary (by Max Steiner); the use of superimposed images to suggest thoughts and emotions; and the psychologically simple, almost allegorical characters all strongly suggest the high silent film aesthetic that was rudely interrupted by the arrival of the talkies.
"My first thought was to strip paintings of their style, and basically hallucinate the original scene from a heavily stylized image," McDonald says.
By the end of the Ming dynasty, the writing of examination responses had become highly stylized and formalized in a pattern called "the eight-legged essay" (baguwen), which in subsequent centuries became notoriously repressive of creative thought and writing.
