Think about it: Germanic counterpoint, Italian opera, the bygone but still popular Rococo style, Austro-German folk music, the sacred-music tradition of the Roman Catholic Church, even the Viennese craze for Turkish music.

Lonely Planet says of the hotel, "a mishmash of bygone styles, the Nai Lert is a bit disappointing in the cramped rooms, but glorious underneath a shady tree in its private garden-park."

The music, some scored by Stewart Copeland, some written and selected by Robbie Robertson, is made in a bygone style that sometimes consciously mimics the multicharacter 1970s dramas.

Thus, it seems fitting for the Penguin to be dabbling in the drawing room with a three-act play of a bygone high style.

Ms. Payton-Wright is this production's contemporary standard bearer of a bygone grand style.

Those qualities, along with Nancy's hypercompetence and taste for bygone styles, make her a bit of a nerd, a take-charge know-it-all.

Although he pays homage to myriad bygone musical styles, Collett adds a tart twist that turns familiar echoes into fresh sounds.

Vintage clothing, especially from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s (the 1980s idea of clashing, electric colours becoming especially popular in mid-late 2007) became extremely popular and fashion designers often sought to emulate bygone styles in their collections.

In France, the old Citroen recalls bygone French style and bourgeois comfort, and when Mr. Orozco's car was exhibited there it was inevitably interpreted as an allegory of straitened times.

Carl Gotthard Langhans and Andreas Ludwig Krüger were acknowledging bygone styles when designing these utilitarian structures.