style

Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.

Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.

PLAGIARIZE, v. To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never, never read.

Self-plagiarism is style.

What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!

Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.

But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!

Adlai Stevenson, himself a notable speaker, often reminisced about his last meeting with Churchill. I asked him on whom or what he had based his oratorical style. Churchill replied, "It was an American statesman who inspired me and taught me how to use every note of the human voice like an organ." Winston then to my amazement started to quote long excerpts from Bourke Cockran's speeches of 60 years before. "He was my model," Churchill said. "I learned from him how to hold thousands in thrall."