But I think he suffers from this desire, widespread in the twentieth century, that a Russian writer should have his own distinctive style.
We find in Rehberg some standard historicist tropes before they became widespread in the nineteenth century.
Obligationes (literally, "obligations") or disputations de obligationibus were a medieval disputation format that became very widespread in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
The use of smalt for this purpose was widespread in the eighteenth century, as very little pigment was required to tint or neutralise the tone of the paper [35].
A yet more extreme position, idealism, which became widespread in the nineteenth century and retained much support well into the twentieth, held that mind stood as the sole ontological foundation of reality, supporting a physical world conceived of as entirely constructed somehow out of mental phenomena.
She quotes me expressing the position that "sexual relationships with unfree women" were "widespread" in the seventh century, and not "a particular religious institution".
Long known in coffee-growing areas of Africa, the Near East, India, Asia, and Australasia, coffee rust was discovered in 1970 to be widespread in Brazil, the first known infected area in the Western Hemisphere.
The widespread conviction in the first case that "the world will be better than ever" was totally shattered by the disaster of 9/11.
The runoff was delayed for months after widespread fraud in the first round put Mr. Préval's choice as successor, Jude Célestin, in the runoff with Ms. Manigat.
The election, a runoff, was delayed by a political crisis over widespread fraud in the first round of voting in December.
