classicalism

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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 Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

In Dutch furniture of this time one sees the reproduction of the Napoleonic fashion—the continuation of the Revolutionists' classicalism.

From Illustrated History of Furniture From the Earliest to the Present Time by Litchfield, Frederick

Flaxman, to his credit, in spite of his classicalism, was one of the first to draw attention 32to the work.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Dearmer, Percy

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 Lippmann, Walter

The United States, you imagine, would of all nations be the freest from classicalism.

From A Preface to Politics by Lippmann, Walter