It is written in Attic Greek, with much studiedly antithetical rhetoric and frequent verbal borrowings from the classical authors, above all Thucydides. |
In a studiedly folksy manner, he explains how he rejects the nostrums of both parties. |
The book is enriched by a deeply informative, yet studiedly non-polemical, introduction by the editor. |
But Mr Brown hails from a more traditional wing of the party than Tony Blair, his studiedly classless predecessor and class, it seems, is now back on its agenda. |
They persisted in the belief that the fellow they were after was a shamefaced scapegrace whose tactics would be studiedly underhanded, and that he was bent on pulling the wool over their eyes. |
And as the president, his rhetoric has been studiedly non-inflammatory. |