At their best, his pared-down diction and old-fashioned style have an effortless if unmodulated grace.

It's a big performance in the old-fashioned style.

Later in his career, his old-fashioned style became as much ridiculed as loved.

Hall was also a painter, though he was typically a copyist, working in a stiff old-fashioned style.

This particular old-fashioned style of windlass was one that required workers to continually remove and re-insert handspikes (wooden leverage bars) into the device to turn its gears.