classicist

How To Use classicist In A Sentence

• The discus sion here focuses on a few definitions widely used by neoclassicists and provides the methodological reasons for the particular definition fol lowed here. THE MORAL DIMENSION
• With one exception the contributions are authored by classicists, historians and archaeologists.
• I salute the memory of a distinguished classicist who also had it in him to forgive and forget the lapses of youth so readily. Times, Sunday Times
• The issue I have with your label of "classicist" is that it is kind of meaningless. Failing the Fundamentalist Final
• His music combined dazzling bursts of musical light with Gallic elegance and the rigorous formalism of a classicist.
• Students of music, for their part, are almost never classicists with a strong grounding in such arcana as papyrology and epigraphy. Notes from Antiquity
• He is a resolute 'classicist' in many ways, expressing his unease about Rilke to Maria von Wedemeyer when she shares her enthusiasm; Rilke is 'unhealthy', a diagnostician of the darker, more flawed and ambiguous regions of the spirit (yet he admired at least some of Dostoevsky). Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Archbishop's Speech to the International Bonhoeffer Congress, Poland
• In literary interpretation, classicists warn us of the ‘documentary fallacy’, the impulse to treat fiction as if it recorded real events or characters from whom inferences can be drawn which have no basis in the text itself.
• The Italian Renaissance's idealisation of classical culture had entered Britain during the 16th century; by the early 18th century, not to be a classicist was almost an act of blasphemy. British architecture: Georgian
• It is a cityscape of abomination, the nightmare of a Classicist.