nonstyleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

nonstyle (countable かつ uncountable; 複数形 nonstyles)

1. That which is not a style; lack of style.
   • 1995, Lilian R. Furst, All Is True: The Claims and Strategies of Realist Fiction (page 147)

     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.

   • 1999, Amelia Jones, Andrew Stephenson, Performing the body/performing the text (page 144)

     Dada and Surrealism and other nonstyles

   • 2002, John Hargraves, Music in the works of Broch, Mann, and Kafka (page 52)

     His nonstyle is painfully evident when he is less than inspired: the "Faust" overture: empty bombast; the Wesendonck-Lieder: empty sentimentality.

   • 2008, Montgomery Van Wart, Leadership in Public Organizations: An Introduction (page 274)

     A laissez-faire style, characterized by passive indifference about the task and subordinates, is essentially a nonstyle.

   • 2012, Zarena Aslami, The Dream Life of Citizens (page 141)

     The novel reveals its contradictory theory of representation when the narrator, describing the young Evadne's notebook, praises its style as a nonstyle […]