But before you go gumming up the comments with triumphalist obituaries to serialism (that this confirmed eclecticist only leaves undeleted out of a combination of courtesy and laziness), it's worth considering Sondheim's career, one that never strayed from the ambitious path that Babbitt hints at.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference

And I don't want you to go thinking that we can expose and repudiate the revisionist and eclecticist historico-ideologues of the ruling classes just by arranging strikes and forming into unions, because the trade-unionist politics of the working class is nothing more than precisely a petit-bourgeois politics of the working class.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]

Nneka: Speaking of soul, this German-Nigerian eclecticist has a singer-songwriter's flair for lyrical directness with a musical bounce that's inflected by hip-hop and reggae.    From Wordnik.com.  [Projo.com Projo Local News] Reference

One of their most esteemed regular gigs is acting as the touring outfit for rediscovered '70s Bay Area R&B eccentric Darondo, though they've also accompanied U.K. soul sensation Alice Russell, Ubiquity Records' eclecticist Nino Moschella, and funk-steeped electronic up-and-comer Wallpaper.    From Wordnik.com.  [LA Weekly | Complete Issue] Reference

We have called Cousin an eclecticist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference