This is partly a matter of style: his prose is remarkably deadpan, at times reading more like a legal brief than a story, while his typical subject matter marries the traditional folktale with a psychologically astute realism (not unlike the approach adopted by Akutagawa in Japan a century later).
One of her adolescent works, "On Being Brought from Africa to America," displays her typical subject matter and the hallmarks of her early style-religious piety wrapped in heroic couplets... Tells about her meeting, October 8, 1772, with a panel of influential thinkers and politicians regarding the authorship of her poems..
One of her adolescent works, "On Being Brought from Africa to America," displays her typical subject matter and the hallmarks of her early style-religious piety wrapped in heroic couplets... Tells about her meeting, October 8, 1772, with a panel of influential thinkers and politicians regarding the authorship of her poems.
At a time when precious little was known about the provenance of many works of art, early connoisseurs developed evaluative tools — for example, identifying an artist's typical subject matter, use of color and use of light — to authenticate works by revered masters and to debunk pretenders to the pedestal.
Hitting upon the right wording is therefore a matter of being clear, but not too banal; In trying not to be too banal, one must use uncommon, dignified words and phrases, but one must be careful not to use them excessively or inappropriately in relation to prose style and the typical subject matter of prose speeches.
Gary Groth of Fantagraphics Books said in an interview he licensed Wandering Son because "it's not a typical choice for a manga title published in the U.S. and it's not typical subject matter for comics in general," saying that the subject is "perfectly legitimate... for literature or comics".
She did it in a typical, matter-of-fact Anderson way.
"I don't get nervous," Haley said, with typical matter-of-factness.
Rather a typical matter-of-fact Merkel delivery and, unlike some who came out of the talks, she was not at all triumphalist.
Wilson, smitten with the romance of these men and their ideals, begins by noting a matter-of-fact irony, which he states with typical matter-of-factness: "Whoever has known the Russian revolutionaries of these pre-War generations at their best has been impressed by the effectiveness of the tsarist regime as a training school for intellect and character in those who were engaged in opposing it".
