| 单词 | grand style |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgrand style grand style n. (with the) a style considered appropriate for the expression of lofty ideas and great subjects in the arts. ΚΠ 1706 in B. Kennett et al. tr. R. Rapin Whole Crit. Wks. II. sig. A5 The Grand Stile cannot succeed, unless it be supported by Great Thoughts. 1773 Ann. Reg. 1772 161 It gave what is called the grand stile to invention, to composition, to expression. 1868 J. R. Lowell Dryden in Prose Wks. (1890) III. 173 This is certainly..in what used to be called the grand style, at once noble and natural. 1944 D. Tovey Chamber Music vi. 94 The mature works of Haydn and Mozart are as truly in what Sir Joshua Reynolds calls ‘the grand style’ as those of Bach and Beethoven. 1984 G. McCaughrean Canterbury Tales (1988) 26 I vouch I could tell a story in the grand style about the most ordinary folk. 2008 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 15 May 16/2 In a general way, the three sections of Shadow Country use what classical rhetoric calls the plain, middle, and grand styles. < as lemmas |
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