classicism often derived its models from the ancient Greeks and Romans. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
It will be fun to see how the local form of ballet classicism is looking. From Wordnik.com. [Ballet in London: City Ballet’s Casting - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
His style is described as classicism with a young modern twist. From Wordnik.com. [Austin Harrelson] Reference
These two critical and literary powers brought in the reign of what is called classicism in France. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
It is that which explains the mixture of "romanticism," "naturalism," and I will add, of "classicism" -- which has been pointed out more than once in Flaubert's work. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life] Reference
Our eye is caught with the antithetical terms, "classicism" and. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
French and English classicism is far more “Latin” than German classicism which is more self-consciously “Greek.”. From Wordnik.com. [CLASSICISM IN LITERATURE] Reference
"Your classicism is the natural complement of my mediævalism. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance] Reference
"classicism" one is reminded of that old bore Polonius, who tells how. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived] Reference
"classicism," under which term they understood all that was antiquated, dry, and pedantic. From Wordnik.com. [Russia] Reference
"The time is right for this kind of new classicism.". From Wordnik.com. [The Anti 'It' Handbag] Reference
French classicism had its long culmination under Louis XIV. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
For that, the French had only the Fauns of a literary neo-classicism. From Wordnik.com. [Recent Developments in European Thought] Reference
It was beauty, or something akin -- classicism, grace -- that set him apart. From Wordnik.com. [The Dimaggio Nobody Knew] Reference
With all this, Collins too was not able to escape altogether from pseudo-classicism. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
His work was a prelude to the classicism of the style of Louis XVI which was to come. From Wordnik.com. [Royal Palaces and Parks of France] Reference
The hall's elegant classicism is fundamentally incompatible with a mundane food court. From Wordnik.com. [Should Union Station's Great Hall be less great?] Reference
No city could offer greater contrast to the ancient and dignified classicism of Nîmes. From Wordnik.com. [Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1] Reference
So, in celebrating Mendelssohn, we're celebrating classicism and … Ms. MUTTER: A great man. From Wordnik.com. [Anne-Sophie Mutter's Immortal Mendelssohn] Reference
And if more pleasing, why cling to the effete and cumbrous tyrannies of a soulless classicism?. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864] Reference
It's really a building that combines the solidity of classicism with the modernity of a tower like form. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 20, 2004] Reference
The true classic instinct and the romanticism are both his own; the pseudo-classicism belongs to the period. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
But Mr. Ratmansky's brilliant neo-classicism mingled beautifully with the music of French composer Edouard Lalo. From Wordnik.com. [Looking Back, Falling Ahead] Reference
Only the third-act pas de deux provides a well-made stretch of classicism, and it falls like rain on parched earth. From Wordnik.com. [Morris Toys With Sylvia; San Francisco's Ace Dancers] Reference
This resulted in a rejection of the rules and models of neo-classicism, a new interest in the literature and manners of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Facts About Shakespeare] Reference
Infused with notions of classicism, they wanted idealized pictures of their home country, and Canaletto was happy to oblige. From Wordnik.com. [Two Views Of London] Reference
They have taught the creators of this time to know what classicism really is, that it is the outline of all things that endure. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
French ambassador in Venice, wrote a poem on rural matters, to which, with an exaggerated classicism, he gave the Greek name of. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863] Reference
Johnson's importance as a conservative was greatest in his professional capacity of literary critic and bulwark of pseudo-classicism. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
Raphael Mengs was a born genius spoiled by the coldness, the pseudo-classicism, the artificiality and eclecticism of the eighteenth century. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
Crystalline rather than impressionistic in outline, there's a reminder in Estampes that Debussy's classicism was never far below the surface. From Wordnik.com. [Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; Debussy: Estampes; Liszt, etc] Reference
A landscape developed such as Turner in a quiet mood might have evolved, and with it a feeling of fantasy, of remoteness, of pure, true classicism. From Wordnik.com. [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference
He insensibly helped on that reform from a too rigid classicism which in our day we have seen pushed to its extreme in the exaggerations of romanticism. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
Delaunay worked in discrete series (views of Paris, the Eiffel Tower and rugby players), trying to fuse Gallic classicism with a painterly sense of fresh air. From Wordnik.com. [Talent Pool] Reference
Against both custom and classicism, fashion reminds us that the pleasure of novelty is a human universal, both served and intensified by modern commercial culture. From Wordnik.com. [Fashion as Art] Reference
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