Performance practises were conservative, and actively resistant to stylistic innovation.

The credits then follow the prelude, which was a stylistic innovation at its time.

His philosophy for the job was to look primarily for linguistic and stylistic innovation in the submitted works, and reward what he described as the power and depth of prose.

In a stylistic innovation, 45/85 confined itself in its other interviews to people who were eyewitnesses and participants of the events they described, rather than historians or experts.

So its broad tone, stylistic innovations and salty language might startle traditionalists more accustomed to silver birches, samovars and understated introspection.