Word: unstylishly
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...conventions of Broadway. Porter perfected what was most ridiculous about the conventions, their inexorable chord progressions and rhymes, and his best songs came out sounding ridiculously perfect, luminous in their wit and dazzling in their style. To come across right, they have to be done almost perfectly, too: unstylish style just comes out sounding like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh--a bit like Paul Schommer's orchestra through much of the Loeb's Kiss Me Kate...
...days. He can sentimentalize at length about bar-hopping with Hemingway and Thurber, and pay tribute to Tim Costello, the late keeper of a Manhattan literary saloon, this way: "Without himself, who has been in the ground and as one with the heather on the heath these many unstylish years, Tim's was never again as it was when he was there softly singing John Anderson, My Jo or discussing the Dublin of Joyce...
...variety of stylish reasons. (Political capital is surely a featured consideration; American critics have a habit of translating the Czech's frequent portrayal of stolid bureaucracy--intended as neutral moral backgroun to more intimate drama--as veiled protest against socialist rule). Most Czech films share an "unstylish", descriptive approach to reality, attempting to cast social themes in individualized dimensions (Milos Forman, Jiri Menzel). But a few filmmakers have made a radical break with previous Czech film, abandoning descriptive conventions for vivid stylization and a strong strain of philosophical abstraction. Chief among these are the art designer Ester Krumbachova and directors...
...began by describing the Creep as "a person who is falling to become a mature adult by deviating in the direction of 'weirdness' and weakness.'" The Creep is shy, unstylish, and awkward. He does not aspire to the sophistication and assertiveness of the "adulthood ideal...
...born (1904) in the town of Berkhamsted (accent on the Berk), about 26 miles northwest of London. Berkhamsted's chief distinction, then as now, was the unstylish but solid boys' public school which bears the' name of the town. Graham's father, Charles Henry Greene, had left Oxford in the 80s intending to be a lawyer. He came to Berkhamsted to teach for one term, and stayed at the school 38 years, the last 17 as headmaster. All six Greene children were born in Berkhamsted; Graham was the fourth. He hated the town...