How To Use Classical In A Sentence

During the Classical Greek period from about 480 to 300 B.C. most necklaces were three dimensional pendants.
Gone was the prim nodus; instead her long hair was parted in the center and allowed to fall loose under a veil, in a deliberate echo of the statuary poses of classical goddesses. Caesars’ Wives
Hmm... a bit of Googling produces this short book review by Charles Solomon, which has the line: "As an essayist, Didion lacks the hyaline profundity of Susan Sontag or the classical erudition of Marguerite Yourcenar ... Making Light: Open thread 136
Today, ashrams and monasteries of various Hindu sects keep the traditions of classical learning alive.
In present-day usage, despite Fowler's strictures, concern for classical and linguistic purity is minimal and the coining of etymological hybrids is casual and massive.

The neo-classical house features a main doorway framed with Ionic pillars and topped by a balustraded balcony complete with carved stone coat of arms.
All forms of classical orthodoxy either explicitly reject or reject in principle kenotic theology.
His hobbies included tending the many trees in his garden, hillwalking, classical music, opera and photography. Times, Sunday Times
It is written in Attic Greek, with much studiedly antithetical rhetoric and frequent verbal borrowings from the classical authors.
A neo-Classical representation of folk music and simplicity, this small work was written in honor of Enesco and Jora on their 60th and 50th birthdays.
Both Bach and Beethoven wrote classical music.
While pointing out some defects of classical logic[Sentencedict], the paper attributes them to substantial implication being directly applied to inference.
With the rollout of Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story, continuing through the end of November (click here for screening locator), a classical music sighting is made that the famous 18th century philosopher Moses Mendelssohn would have been proud of. Laurence Vittes: Classical Music Media Sighting: Felix Mendelssohn Introduces Interview With Sandy Koufax
He probably intended it as an exact classical allusion.
These tenacious guerrillas come from Chechnya, Pakistan, and Uzbekistan, and they use classical guerrilla hit-and-run tactics.
Classical painters developed the use of animal hair, and the paint brush, as we know it, was born.
For a classical story ballet to truly be a fulfilling experience, the movements have to reveal character; they need to have an underlying motivation.
But this was only innovative in so far as classical ballet was concerned as there are many 5/4 Slav folk dances.
In the armies of classical Greece, the paean or war-chant was the standard opening to set-piece battles.
Experiments have demonstrated the ability to reproduce classical conditioning phenomena and robot control simulations.
Excavations directed by Metaxia Tsipopoulou of the Greek Ministry of Culture and William D.E. Coulson, former director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, showed that the four buildings had been erected on the rectangular "megaron" plan typical of the Greek mainland. Cretan Shrine Discovered
Our definition is equally acceptable to the classical physicist.
Sironi's peer in sculpture was Arturo Martini, who also used archaic forms to enliven the classical tradition in search of a non-rhetorical Fascist style.
When you think of a classical music composer, blokes with gold teeth and a shaved head probably don't spring to mind! The Sun
It is important that they do not associate classical music with a bunch of doddery old men.
Though self-effacing "It isn't my personality to be particularly proud of what I do" the composer seems to recognize his legacy as arguably the only living film composer with both classical credentials and name recognition among everyday moviegoers. The Last Movie Maestro
But he thought the piece needed more work, and he wanted to get a better feeling for the classical ballet.
And classical reminiscences have, even with him, a dull musty tinge which recalls the antiquarian in his Cambridge college-rooms rather than the visitor to Florence and Rome. Proserpine and Midas
In classical episteme, the understanding of the same tragedy category is different to some extent because of in different time and space, but they are similar on the whole.
I know that the idea of an apprenticeship is more important in the classical world, that you should build up a solid career bit by bit, rather than aim for sudden, one-time success. Archive 2006-10-01
Jon's suite, which makes up the entirety of the original Concerto record, is nothing better than a bad mixture of hard rock soloing and a rather childish idea of classical music.
In addition to the presence of neutralizing antibodies, in vitro studies have shown that human adenovirus type 5 hemagglutinates human erythrocytes and is partially inactivated by the classical complement system.
A performer in evening dress plays classical selections on the violin.
Can classical music escape the noose? Times, Sunday Times
You're likely to hear fragments of everything from classical masterpieces to thrash metal, from jazz licks to film music soundscapes.
Neoclassical economists say impatiently that it makes sense to borrow against the additional earnings that a university degree may generate.
Renaissance scholars based their conception of classical art on statues, particularly Greek ones and Roman copies of Greek originals.
No less powerfully mythopoetic than the classical image of the disease, the demonological model envisioned the hysterical anesthesias, mutisms, and convulsions as stigmati diaboli or marks of the devil.
Lima is one of Brazil's top classical pianists.
Much of classical astrology developed as a result of the Hellenistic perspective towards numerology and geometry.
In this respect he forms the link between Wagner and Schoenberg, who was soon to complete the destruction of classical tonal harmony.
Such verse was unknown in classical Greek but common in Latin and the Celtic and Germanic languages.
There is an idea amongst people who never go to classical concerts - which is the majority of the population - that it is full of people in tiaras and cummerbunds.
Then we look for basic ability to sight-read tonal music i.e., in the classical style of Bach, Brahms or traditional folk song. The Master of Many Choruses
Let's hope that classical music in North America is not yet ready for a requiem!
The classical music scene languished during the war as symphony orchestras and opera companies lost musicians to military bands.
Hilary's singing voice is classically trained to perfection, her tones both rich and clear.
His music fused the rhythms of jazz with classical forms.
Typically the characters of a masque would be classical deities or abstract qualities such as a Virtue and Beauty, contrasted with rustic figures, and the story would represent an archetypal conflict proceeding to resolution.
How likely is it that a twenty-first-century music giving priority to ‘new classical’ virtues will sit happily with forms of writing which retain ‘modernist’ perspectives on multivalence?
It's an instrumental album featuring classical instrumentation, it features gorgeous packaging, and most of the song titles are either in French or chock full of commas.
The haute école of classical equitation includes movements with direct military application, like the capriole which was originally intended to enable a horseman to use his steed to kick an attacker approaching from behind.
Gnedenko enjoyed classical music, and had a large collection of records.
In the newer radio drama, classical and real-world references are less overt but underpin the edifice. Times, Sunday Times
The classical economist Von Hayek, who authored On the road to serfdom, warned about such interference by government in the economic order which can culminate the unbridle manipulation and pollution of the economic system. Emerging economies must reject handouts and bailouts capitalism
I'm not very big on classical music.
But the lives of our saints, independently altogether of the momentous change in human affairs and prospects which they ushered in, have a substantial hold on history, of which neither the classical nor the northern hierology can boast. The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
Classically, but infrequently observed, the attacks occur every second day with the "tertian" parasites ( Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth
The scoring is for a simple classical orchestra, strings, double woodwind, four horns and two trumpets.
Classical criminology did not assume that existing legal definitions of crime and the way they are enforced necessarily constitute this objective category.
Despite its rather insubstantial construction, the basket weighs thirty troy ounces and presages the simple elegance of the neoclassical style.
Operations performed to measure local time and local length are accepted as unanalysed operations in both classical physics and relativity physics.
Say the word geisha and images of beautiful kimono-clad women serving green tea, reciting poetry and playing classical instruments may spring to mind. News On Japan
In the early 20th century, it was realized that the stability of atomic matter could not be explained using the Maxwell equations of classical electrodynamics.
Does she study classical ballet or modern ballet?
Phil's achievements in the field of instrumental and classical crossover has brought him a legion of fans and sustained critical acclaim.
She was reading for a degree of classical literature in Oxford when the war broke out.
Like most of the terms that refer to major conceptual anchors of the western intellectual tradition, its origins may be traced to classical antiquity.
The design of the building is modelled on classical Greek forms.
Kanako Ito, the highly talented violinist and concertmistress of the Kansas City Symphony, will perform Mendelssohn’s “Violin Concerto in E Minor” on a Symphony Classical Series performance Oct. 23-25. KansasCity.com: Front Page
With classical recitals on the central patio, well-stocked CD cabinets (all 14 rooms have hi-fis) and lots of surrealist art, it has bags more character than most cheapies.
The film plays like a classical symphony on the withering of age and the resilience of a couple's love under growing strain. Times, Sunday Times
Classical music, 14-18sNational Youth Orchestra, conducted by Semyon Bychkov, at the Royal Albert Hall, London, on 7 August by Sasha Millwood, 18The magical and mysterious quality imbued to the Dukas never came at the expense of the clarity of the virtuosic lines. Guardian young arts critic competition: 2010 winning entries
He never seems to address things like panentheism, which is clearly different from classical theism, but isn't it still, in some sense, a theism? What is an Atheist?
Dance music, of course, was never a single tradition, and that was its strength - the ability to draw on anything from African classical music to European avant-garde.
Berns studied classical piano as a child, and worked as a record salesman, music copyist and session pianist in his teens and twenties.
While the system of Democritus has the mystique of an incomparable classical creation, the atomic sys - tem of Epicurus, over a century later, bears the mark of an important but epigonic adaptation. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Some critics say he prostituted his musical skills by going into pop rather than staying with classical music.
This vision of cooperative self-government often produced republicanism and even democracy comparable to classical Greek democracy.
Except for the temperature inversion between 0 and 1 km altitude, these profiles are characterized by a classical decrease with increasing altitude.
Rooms are classically styled and there is an outdoor pool, putting green and croquet lawn. Times, Sunday Times
The repeated recitation of upstate New York towns, with their echoes of classical greatness - Thrace, Troy, Rome, Ithaca, Carthage - are ironic echoes of other lost civilizations.
It has been well said that to exclude the voice from pre-classical music would lose us most of the repertoire.
His classical treatment of the subject is worth serious reference; for it should be realised that Lincoln, who had both to learn his new trade of statecraft and to exercise it in a terrible emergency, did so with a large part of each day necessarily consumed by worrying and distasteful tasks of a much paltrier kind. Abraham Lincoln
This third and largest courtyard, St George's Square, is in a uniform neo-Classical style by Pacassi.
One of the things I love about classical ballet is the difference between the two genders.
But is classical music so different from other forms of music? Times, Sunday Times
Although this is a typical Islamic motif, it traces its origins to the vine and acanthus scroll ornament of the late antique classical world, and the pattern itself refers back on the other hand to early Syrian textiles.
They turn out a flamboyant blend of jazz, folk, funk and classical guitar, with flourishes of Latin acoustic guitar of a most impressive standard.
In fact, the arguments about the injustice of rehabilitation apply equally to classical criminology's advocacy of efficient deterrence.
The carcinoid syndrome is classically described as flushing, diarrhea, and abdominal cramps, but borborygmi, cyanosis, telangiectasis, pellagra like skin lesions, wheezing, dypsnea or palpitations may also occur.
But he was classically trained and composed a number of orchestral works, including an acclaimed concerto which took him into the classical music charts. Times, Sunday Times
The most powerful impulse of the time can be summed up as neoclassicism, a reversion to the purist attempts of the Renaissance to reproduce classical models.
Socialism is obviously superior to that classical liberal idiocy, so quit the whingeing.
The video is narrated by a well-known announcer from the local classical music station: From Hadyn to Hip Hop: Music at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - video
For a classical pendulum, that is when the bob is at rest and at the bottom.
Words such as dreamboat apply to the mellow folk-jazz musician; he's the kind of classically handsome guy about whom women, moms and gay brothers can ... The Pitch | Complete Issue
Ms. Wang's keen classical furniture had encountered such a sales force. Ms.
The classically trained singers that I've heard inevitably sound less than spontaneous, to be charitable, and their diction is invariably too "correct" and too lots of other things that I don't want to hear. Salvati dunque e scolpati
According to classical electromagnetic theory, a charge rotating with a simple harmonic frequency should emit electromagnetic radiation of the same frequency.
The advantages of the postclassical approach apply wherever the motivations towards particular criminal actions are vastly more prevalent than the actions.
You are asked to give plot synopses for the big six classical ballets, and I went a bit berko here and managed to write 32 pages.
There is classical music playing in the background.
From the fifth century onwards, the species of large animals, whether cattle, sheep, swine, or even poultry, disappear and were replaced everywhere, until the end of the middle ages, by the smaller breeds of the pre-classical period.
The album merges sounds and influences from East and West, and stretches the boundaries of musical experimentation by fusing traditional folk songs and classical styles with the popular.
A stroll through the California State Capitol (10th and L Streets; 916-324-0333; www. capitolmuseum.ca.gov) - a neo-Classical confection of Corinthian and other classic columns, parget plasterwork and mosaic floors - makes everything feel like it's in grand order. NYT > Home Page
In An Allegory, for example, the composition invokes the sublime order of classical art.
This is sometimes known as a classical or two-tier tax system. Principles of Corporate Finance
We found that many children, even those not much exposed to classical music at home, had an innate interest in it.
We experiment these models on Classical Chinese, a typical isolating language.
He has a law degree and a master's degree in classical studies from Columbia University.
The classical design was a far cry from today's functional agricultural buildings.
The book's elaborate introduction claims that this collection of "fragments" is the decoded version of a text "dating from classical Greece or earlier" (xiii), purporting to anthologize the work of the Homerids (who were real). The Little Professor:
The activities at parish, classical, and provincial level would be co-ordinated by a national synod and by Parliament.
Taken together with the loss of classical civilisation and history of art, we are seeing this exam board in effect deleting culture from its curriculum. Times, Sunday Times
Almanac (1676) and we find it alluded to in Boccaccio, the classical sedile which according to scoffers has formed the papal chair (a curule seat) ever since the days of Pope Joan, when it has been held advisable for one of the Cardinals to ascertain that His The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Nevertheless, uncritical acceptance of the results of classical twin studies may have misled a generation of researchers.
The manuscripts, ivories and metalworking of the new Empire also reinvented classical art, in particular the accurate depiction of the human figure and an interest in the vine scroll and plant ornament beloved of the Romans.
I had cut out a silhouette of a beautiful, naked woman from a neo-classical painting published in an art magazine and made it into a doll.
Our home is at the southwestern tip of the valley, nestled among the lace-lichen laden oaks, bay laurel, mountain mahogany, ceanothus and toyon which typify this classically central coast California oak woodland.
England's Regency style was a natural outgrowth of the neoclassical style that prevailed in eighteenth-century Europe.
I mean tragedy in the classical sense in which the hero's misery is embedded in his triumph.
Behind a cute, red, shopfront the hotel is surprisingly large, with 50 classically-decorated rooms. Times, Sunday Times
We perform classical, pre-classical, romanticism pieces, with domination of Bulgarian folk and church-Slavonic music.
This garlic bouillon was classically made the day after a fête, being excellent for hangovers as well as soothing for convalescents.
Born in Kiev, he was a schoolboy in the classical gymnasium in Kiev.
Being Sunday, several families were on the Necklace Road to take in the classical rhapsodies.
Used for storage and for seating, cassoni were patterned after ancient Roman sarcophagi, which were much appreciated in the Renaissance when there was a renewed interest in classical antiquity.
He was a classical singer and even when it was not customary for people of the cloth to perform on stage, he did so with aplomb.
She has flirted with crossover material, but her popular appeal has in no way diminished the admiration of classical fans.
Last week we delved into the world of classical music composers who had been inspired by the beautiful game.
It isn't always obvious who is supporting whom; the women grapple with their partners' bodies in ways we are used to the men doing with women -- and the grappling isn't obscured by all the prettifying tricks of classical ballet, part of whose magic is in the illusion of ease. Larissa Archer: Lines Ballet's Resin Breaks Down Ballet's Conventions
Rooms are classically styled and there is an outdoor pool, putting green and croquet lawn. Times, Sunday Times
They must retain the calm spaciousness of movement if they are not to destroy the essence of the classical style.
a classical ballet
There is no reason to believe in enforcement of a modus in private circumstances in classical law.
suggestive and adumbrative manner" -- not, indeed, he acknowledges, a romantic manner, and yet "quite distinct from the classical"; i.e., because of the transcendental character of a portion of his poetry. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
Helene got him a topflight classical guitar teacher, who found the boy stubbornly autodidactic.
As the classical imagination rightly observed, we all have a tendency to privilege the contents of the ego in service to our security (this they called hybris) and a tendency to view the world through the colored lens granted us by fate (this they called the hamartia) and end by deceiving ourselves. California Literary Review
For centuries, classical anatomy had formed the bedrock of culture. Times, Sunday Times
On the lowest lawn twin rows of classical statues eyed each other across a sward dotted with croquet-hoops. ULTIMATE PRIZES
Through the simple tools of classical conditioning then, the shoe becomes a conditioned stimulus giving rise to the conditioned response of sexual pleasure.
Dad tunes the Kingswood once a month like a classical musician would tune his violin, and the engine sings.
Exasperated with the straitlaced protocols of concertgoing, Mr. Kantor and Mr. Handler decided to open a club that would present an eclectic mix of programming, not just old and new works from the classical music tradition, but rock, jazz, world music and anything else that might entice people, especially young people, who are curious about out-there music and care little about labels. DesignerBlog
Democracies, many classical Greeks believed, were slow to fight, but more effective when they fought (ancient memory suggests this assertion is somewhere in Thucydides, but I could not find the exact citation). Balkinization
All art is but facsimile of nature and the art of imitating someone or something classically in order to entertain is mimicry.
In fact, it sounded so good that it seemed as though someone with an ear for classical music was at the helm of this company and so we decided to investigate.
Other western sciences exclude difficult aspects of subjectivity from their portraits of themselves, as in classical physics.
This garlic bouillon was classically made the day after a fête, being excellent for hangovers as well as soothing for convalescents.
In many ways, he is the classical 'arriviste' in the good sense of the word. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
An idea of Koopman on the possibilities of treating problems of classical mechanics by means of operators on a function space stimulated him to give the first mathematically rigorous proof of an ergodic theorem.
Back in the day, those comfortable with his modern classical accomplishments were baffled by his acetates of loopy leftfield disco.
The two wedding-cake pulpits and the organ case opposite are as grand as can be, and interior so bracketed is the ne plus ultra of American colonial church architecture, plain and crisp and white, with exquisitely classical proportions. Archive 2009-01-01
The study of G -logic opens a new path for applications of classical logic. G -logic provides a better theoretical tool for treating of irregular knowledge.
Volvulus classically appears on the upper GI as a spiral corkscrew of the duodenum.
Count on more of his unusual routines, such as his strenuously graceful paeans to classical opera, sung by his favorite singer.
Some of the most popular classical pieces comprise the final week's performances with Beethoven's overtures and Rachmaninov's piano concertos always attracting a wide audience.
Not only can we sing and dance to Bollywood numbers, Indian classical music and bhangra, but fusions of East and West are fast gaining the ascendancy.
She was lovely, but strangely characterless, like a classical sculpture on a plinth. A NASTY DOSE OF DEATH
The sounds of the flute, the santoor and the tabla will bring alive the India classical traditions like never before.
A programme of jazz and classical music, showing the saxophone as an instrument of both musical genres.
Mom dragged us to a classical music concert.
Training in different genres, and an ability to play -- and improvise -- nonclassical music makes an instrumentalist more employable. Classical Musicians Learn to Improvise
This ancient Middle Eastern source furnished the basis for classical Greek medical and philosophical theories of hysteria.
BÃ©ziau 2004, it was observed that by putting together the sequent rules for classical conjunction and the rules for classical disjunction, the resulting sequent calculus will (unexpectedly) prove the distributivity between conjunction and disjunction. Combining Logics
She finds him dragged down into the depths by sea-creatures who are an amalgam of classical nereides and the malicious nixies and mermaids of northern folklore.
This freshman - level course is an introduction to classical mechanics.
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
It is in typical ‘Kentian’ style, with the cornice supported on scrolled brackets flanking a frieze with swags and a central mask, the jambs being carved as female terms with classical drapery.
A large convex molding, semicircular in cross section, located at the base of a classical column.
The former has the classically draped general rising from his sarcophagus, while around him the pyramid of Eternity crumbles and the figure of Time breaks his scythe.
It is important to note that the definition of "neoclassical economics " is not perfectly self-evident. The Making of Neoclassical Economics
I'm trying to foster an interest in classical music in my children.
Zwilich's flute concerto was nominated for Best Contemporary Classical Composition.
Pianist-composer Childs is a hometown phenomenon busy carving out a career between the jazz and classical worlds.
Apsidal motion is one of the classical diagnostics of stellar structure.
But he demanded high standards and as a classical scholar was exasperated by my inability to cope with Latin.
Yet classical ballet is not colour blind. Times, Sunday Times
When the time comes for classical elements like story and character to take over, they are unequal to the task.
This is the classical argument of social chauvinism.
Given an initial condition on a time-like hypersurface as a mathematical model for the universe, we can determine in which direction a dynamics (supposed here to be deterministic, whether applied to a quantum or to a classical state) causes the entropy to increase or to decrease. Arrow of Time FAQ
Nice restaurants and top-end classical concerts. Times, Sunday Times
Presenting simplified descriptions in terms of phenomenology is one thing, but presenting descriptions of something that you admit requires not only general relativity, but a theory of quantum gravity, in terms of classical mechanics should be a warning sign to most readers. “Black Holes – a Simplified Theory for Quantum Gravity Non-Specialists”
Other passions included classical music and silkscreen printing. Times, Sunday Times
Most oil paintings and pencil sketches portrayed women, classical dancers and children in different perspectives.
However, historian Will Durant correctly observed: ‘Europe and America are the spoiled child and grandchild of Asia and have never quite realized the wealth of their pre-classical inheritance.’
In any case, even within technical, i.e. classical mythology, Orpheus was a singer, not a fish.
The event was a humdinger of a house-warming, with sublime moments and a mood that veered between a classical music concert and a beery knees-up at a wedding.
The waterslide town is also known for its annual arts fest, which livens up the Laurentians every August with classical music and dance for nine days straight.
The contest disproved the general belief that the youngsters of today were more inclined towards western music than classical.
Influenced by such varied traditions as Japanese manga, anime, and classical nihonga painting and Western Pop art, The Photoshop Blog
The film is about street dancers joining up with classical performers to become the UK's top dance act. The Sun
And he take pains to trace Wilde's homosexuality primarily to the literary precedents he discovered in his classical studies at Oxford -- the Greek ideal of a "paederastic" love of an older, intellectual mentor and an acolyte. Wilde in the Stacks
Usually I feel that period instrument groups present a more idiomatic picture of Classical era music, but I doubt that the interpretations of Quintett Momento Musicale can be improved upon.
Afterwards, a traveller from the future remarks that she's heard of the Beatles, having visited their memorial in Liverpool, but that she didn't realize that the Beatles also performed "classical music. Boing Boing
Mom dragged us to a classical music concert.
Olivia Rojo boasts more than two decades of classical dance training.
The newcomer on the radio scene is a commercial station devoted to classical music.
The portrait miniature seems to be a development of two older traditions: the medieval illumination of manuscripts and the Renaissance portrait medal, which was itself a revival of a classical form.
Science and Classical artistic life are good, and the contrary, such as today's popular cultures, are bad per se in respect to their tendency to cause populations to debase, even bestialize themselves, as fascists do, as the violent existentialists of 1968 did, that to the ruinous effects on the culture of the world as a whole, today. LaRouche's Latest

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