I feel the need to admit that I have not given much explicit thought to the definition of style, notwithstanding that I am said to possess it, by which a compliment is sometimes but not always intended (“style” is widely misread as affectation). But finding myself in the pressure cooker, it came to me after very little ratiocination that style is, really, timing.
William F. Buckley, in a letter to Playboy, January 1983