Word: stylistics
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...Stylist. In Rio de Janeiro, Decio de Souza Santos, who made a habit of sending a letter of apology to each of his burglary victims, was arrested when he showed up at the stationer's to buy a fresh supply of his favorite note paper...
...trouble with 'Briton Hadden' is in its style. Busch is a senior editor on 'Life,' and he writes with all the brightness and clarity that go along with the frequent superficiality of that magazine's prose. There is a tremendous difference between the apparently effortless writing of a real stylist and the glibness that characterizes this book. And Busch's thinking is as glib as are his sentences. He deals more in notions than in ideas; and his book is a sketch, not a biography...
...obvious that slender (148 Ibs.) Dave Freeman was no classic stylist. His smash was somewhat less than devastating, his wrist-flick deception shots not the game's most subtle or varied. But like Bitsy Grant, the once-mighty mite of tennis, he made incredible gets. His knees were always scratched and bloody after a tough match...
Never, never mistake a good stylist like...
...Wordsworth's mistaken nations about diction: besides the 'heavy accent and the slowness' he prefers, he has elsewhere explained that it is easier to write poetry than prose which must be created since certain formulae, such as rhythm, rhyme, etc., are not made available, a priori, to the prose stylist...