classicalism

How To Use classicalism In A Sentence

• Konak was a more just one, and that inside its card-board classicalism could be found the slightest approach to American hospitality. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867
• Yes, zany classicalism was our keynote this time; also snatched up like precious gems was Ralph Ellis' K2: Quest of the Gods y'see, Alexander the Great was looking for the Pyramid Treasure in the Himalayas and Felice Vinci's The Baltic Origins of Homer's Epic Tales, which title strikes me rather as a subtitle in search of a lurid phrase, but has the virtue of clarity. Kenneth Hite's Journal
• He is among those who contend classicalism is coming back in style in many American cities, pointing to Nashville, among other cities, where the new public library in downtown and its newest concert hall were built in a classical rather than modernist style.
• Nor is it merely wasted wealth or distempered conception which we have to regret in this Renaissance architecture: but we shall find in it partly the root, partly the expression of certain dominant evils of modern times -- over-sophistication and ignorant classicalism; the one destroying the healthfulness of general society, the other rendering our schools and universities useless to a large number of the men who pass through them. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851
• On the other hand, his realistic painting bears explicit modern consciousness, differing from former realistic classicalism, both in the form and in the spirit connotation.
• On the other hand, his realistic painting bears explicit modern consciousness, differing from former realistic classicalism, both in the form and in the spirit connotation.
• You can taste the romance and refinement of European classicalism, the luxury and generosity of American pragmatism, the tenderness and delicacy of the Orient and the ardor of the tropical islands.
• The United States, you imagine, would of all nations be the freest from classicalism. A Preface to Politics
• At the beginning of the 19th century, for example, the ‘newer’ paradigm of positivism emerged to challenge the ‘older’ paradigm of classicalism.
• There the pioneering impulse has passed out of life into stupid history books, and the inevitable classicalism, the fear of adventure, the superstition before social invention, have reasserted themselves. A Preface to Politics