Classicism Sentence Examples

His classicism led to his great limitations as an historian.

Classicism in the shape of solid, respectable Hummel on the one hand, and Carl Czerny, a trifle flippant, perhaps, and inclined to appeal to the gallery, on the other, these gave the musical parentage of young Liszt.

It also escaped the classicism of the Renaissance with its insistence upon the test - either fact or fiction.

In his beloved Italy his etchings are suffused with a classicism that nonetheless appeals to a contemporary aesthetic.

I was surprised to the extent which Baldwin, known mainly for contemporary dance, had embraced classicism - both steps and tutus.

He abjures any political or ideological etiquette, including the classicism versus Romanticism debate, then so popular in Europe.

His work, although of modern simplicity and abstraction, embodies an enduring classicism of spirit.

There is little that can compare with the well preserved classicism of Ston Easton Park.

At his best, Dravid mixes orthodox classicism with the wristy flourish associated with the subcontinent.

They exude a sense of modernity, yet there is a hint of classicism underneath it all that makes every piece quite timeless and extremely elegant.

Admittedly, he brought to his study all the prejudices, both good and bad, of French classicism.

A fine example of late Georgian classicism which has recently been restored to its former glory.

This expressed itself in a new classicism reflecting the revival of what was believed to have been the ancient Empire of Great Britain.

The earlier villas were completed in Regency cottage style, which was later to give way to mid and early Victorian Palladian classicism.

Contained within the debate is a consideration of the growth of English classicism over this period.

Death is also a preoccupation of eighteenth century classicism.

That said, Captain Wilberforce continues to be an engaging live presence and his brand of pop classicism is always welcome down my way.

According to the well-known law, however, the Renaissance, made for the people of the plains, never fully took root in Siena, as in other parts of Tuscany, and the loss of its independence and power in 1555 led to a suspension of building activity, which to the taste of the present day is most fortunate, inasmuch as the baroque of the 17th and the false classicism of the 18th centuries have had hardly any effect here; and few towns of Italy are so unspoilt by restoration or the addition of incongruous modern buildings, or preserve so many characteristics and so much of the real spirit (manifested to-day in the grave and pleasing courtesy of the inhabitants) of the middle ages, which its narrow and picturesque streets seem to retain.

Thus the elements of which Faust is composed were even more difficult to blend than were those of Wilhelm Meister; but the very want of uniformity is one source of the perennial fascination of the tragedy, and has made it in a peculiar degree the national poem of the German people, the mirror which reflects the national life and poetry from the outburst of Sturm and Drang to the well-weighed and tranquil classicism of Goethe's old age.

The Sak handbags combine fun, fresh style with a touch of classicism.

Every item is constructed with a thoughtful regard for classicism, essentially representing the ideal balance between style and practicality.

While color and detail are certainly infused into many of the styles, you find a classicism in the shoes rather than the raw edginess of styles like Rebel Shoes.

Lamartine has been extolled as a pattern of combined passion and restraint, as a model of nobility of sentiment, and as a harmonizer of pure French classicism in taste and expression with much, if not all, the better part of Romanticism itself.

Under the influence of this reading he now finally broke with classicism and became one of the leaders of the new Sturm and Drang movement.

Lessing was the exponent of German classicism; Herder, on the contrary, was a pioneer of the romantic movement.

His buildings are stately and graceful in proportion, but show a tendency towards dull scholastic classicism.

Japanese journalistic writing in these early years of Meiji was marred by extreme and pedantic classicism.

He has not the excessive classicism of style which mars even the fine prose of Jean Calvin, and which makes that of some of Calvin's followers intolerably stiff.

The new humanism was a kind of revival of the Renaissance, which had been retarded by the Reformation in Germany and by the Counter-Reformation in Italy, or had at least been degraded to the dull classicism of the schools.

The foe that was advancing in the opposite direction, though without the conscience of a hostile purpose, was the new power of human reason animated with the revived sentiment of classicism.

The calm beauty of Greek tragedy is seen in the new iambic version of Iphigenie auf Tauris (1787); the classicism of the Renaissance gives the ground-tone to the wonderful drama of Torquato Tasso (1790), in which the conflict of poetic genius with the prosaic world is transmuted into imperishable poetry.

Goethe's classicism brought him into inevitable antagonism with the new Romantic movement which had been inaugurated in 1798 by the Athenaeum, edited by the brothers Schlegel.

Romanticism, that reaction in which Sir Walter Scott, the Schlegels and Victor Hugo so largely figured, was as far from understanding what it admired as classicism had been from what it hated.

The newspapers sacrificed theiraudience to their erudition and preferred classicism to circulation.

Less important than Die Wahlverwandtschaften was Pandora (181 o), the final product of Goethe's classicism, and the most uncompromisingly classical and allegorical of all his works.