What does nonstyle mean?
Nonstyle means That which is not a style; lack of style..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
That which is not a style; lack of style..
Despite the findings of recent critics, who have taken issue with the word, disputing its appropriateness to realism, this perception of the characteristic style of realism as a nonstyle has nevertheless been hard to dislodge.
Dada and Surrealism and other nonstyles
His nonstyle is painfully evident when he is less than inspired: the "Faust" overture: empty bombast; the Wesendonck-Lieder: empty sentimentality.
A laissez-faire style, characterized by passive indifference about the task and subordinates, is essentially a nonstyle.
The novel reveals its contradictory theory of representation when the narrator, describing the young Evadne's notebook, praises its style as a nonstyle[…]
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Nonstyle means That which is not a style; lack of style..
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Despite the findings of recent critics, who have taken issue with the word, disputing its appropriateness to realism, this perception of the characteristic style of realism as a nonstyle has nevertheless been hard to dislodge.
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