Our oil paintings have different styles such as classicalism, impressionism and realism, etc. Read on site. From Wordnik.com. [We Blog A Lot] Reference
Konak was a more just one, and that inside its card-board classicalism could be found the slightest approach to American hospitality. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867] Reference
In the arts we call this inveterate tendency classicalism. From Wordnik.com. [A Preface to Politics] Reference
The psychological descent into classicalism is always a strong possibility. From Wordnik.com. [A Preface to Politics] Reference
The United States, you imagine, would of all nations be the freest from classicalism. From Wordnik.com. [A Preface to Politics] Reference
We have almost no spiritual weapons against classicalism: universities, churches, newspapers are by-products of a commercial success; we have no tradition of intellectual revolt. From Wordnik.com. [A Preface to Politics] Reference
He remained inspired by classical rhetorical ideals long after the neo-classicalism and deferential politics of the founding generation had been eclipsed by the commercial ethos and mass democracy of the Jacksonian Era. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Let it be remembered that the thought has the cast of a strictly pessimist quietism -- that the style aims, if it aims at any single thing, at the reproduction of the simpler side of classicalism, at an almost prim and quakerish. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Arnold] Reference
John Quincy Adams remained inspired by classical rhetorical ideals long after the neo-classicalism and deferential politics of the founding generation had been eclipsed by the commercial ethos and mass democracy of the Jacksonian Era. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]]
The classicalism of Pope's time was no doubt very different from that of the period of Erasmus; but in his view it differed only because the contemporaries of Dryden had more thoroughly dispersed the mists of the barbarism which still obscured the Shakspearean age, and from which even. From Wordnik.com. [Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series] Reference
Zac Pennington's coldly, chillingly close-to-the-bone, androgynously written-and-delivered lyrics atop a background of sumptuous pop-classicalism arrangements oozing like some sort of strangled 1950s housewife's radio, Lolita and Bacharach all in one, ravished on the patio or the front lawn. From Wordnik.com. [The Line Of Best Fit] Reference
For this first, simply-sensuous Beauty-worship, this picture of a world in which real humanity, with right and wrong, are not so much excluded as not recognized, Keats might have found a precedent, not in the beautiful mythology of Greece, referred to in the Preface to Endymion, but in the beginning of the later half of the Italian Renaissance; the great age of Florentine art and classicalism. From Wordnik.com. [Notes] Reference
Yet the reign of Elizabeth was hardly more fertile -- the Renaissance movement in our poetry led English writers into the pleasant paths of a revived and (with them) innocent classicalism: whilst the unsettled elements in the religious sphere, the dominance of Genevan doctrine -- fervid indeed, but narrow, ultra-dogmatic, and rarely blessed by the smile of the Muses -- were conditions equally disfavourable. From Wordnik.com. [The Treasury of Sacred Song] Reference
Its classicalism was not altogether a cant. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimes of England] Reference
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