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stylistic

[stahy-lis-tik] / staɪˈlɪs tɪk /
ADJECTIVE
elocutionary
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His recordings and performances from the ’80s on moved across the gamut of the various personal stylistic expressions he had developed in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026

A straight-line stylistic progression was not Hofmann’s way.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026

She pairs them with a dissonant rock-pop sound that's equal parts Alanis Morissette and Evanescence - a stylistic choice that initially worked against her.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026

The stylistic bait-and-switch doesn’t just hamper the film’s momentum; it reveals just how silly the entire endeavor up until the climax has been.

From Salon • Mar. 15, 2026

The person most haunted by Berlioz’s symphonic setting of Romeo and Juliet, on the other hand, was Richard Wagner, who used it as a stylistic template for his opera Tristan und Isolde in 1865.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall




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