classicalism
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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.
From A Preface to Politics by Walter Lippmann
The psychological descent into classicalism is always a strong possibility.
From A Preface to Politics by Walter Lippmann
We have almost no spiritual weapons against classicalism: universities, churches, newspapers are by-products of a commercial success; we have no tradition of intellectual revolt.
From A Preface to Politics by Walter Lippmann
We want to create a sustained counter effort to the perpetual tendency of all educational organisations towards classicalism, secondary issues, and the evasion of life.
From The New Machiavelli by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Once landed, I began to wish that the comparison I had drawn for the Konak was a more just one, and that inside its card-board classicalism could be found the slightest approach to American hospitality.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 by Various
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