The album was described as a "stylistic leap" from Your Favorite Weapon, with a "decidedly matured" sound.

Many of Mr. Sternfeld's pictures record the stylistic leaps across time that the juxtaposition of structures from such disparate eras can suggest.

That film, an art-house hit, which earned $1 million, was a huge stylistic leap from Mr. Haynes's first film, "Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story."

But does it make sense to ignore them, to pretend they do not exist, and let the new building make a stylistic leap as well as a geographic leap over them to return to the original style of Rockefeller Center?

Mr. Livingston said Antheil's seemingly random stylistic leaps did little to help his reputation.

I collected all the information I could about his career and analysed every piece of published writing, increasingly sure I could detect a stylistic leap, an epochal improvement in quality around the time the Maestro's Scrivano went missing.

Dylan's April 1965 album Bringing It All Back Home was yet another stylistic leap, featuring his first recordings made with electric instruments.

He presented his new band, Zooid, in its premiere at the Knitting Factory on Friday night, and there was not quite as much of a stylistic leap as he has conditioned us to.

The image dates from the Late Heian period (circa 900 to 1185), but the stylistic leap to 21st-century manga work is not so great.

Broad jumping from Stephen Sondheim to Muddy Waters is as big a stylistic leap as a pop singer could make, and in executing it the 63-year-old singer stamped his signature on both songs.