classicism
Example Sentences
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Its asymmetrical, free-form plate-glass top rests on a base made of two identical, U-shaped wooden legs —a configuration that blurs distinctions between primitivism and classicism, the organic and the engineered, furniture and art.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
Greco-Roman classicism traveled east and influenced the depiction of Buddhist subjects.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
"It was not elaborate like Victorian Gothic design that preceded it, and came with a classicism and simplicity that has survived the test of time," he said.
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2025
Unplanned, mismatched buildings sprout like fungus among the grid of its streets, whose orderly classicism is often disrupted by tectonically induced hills.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2024
More nuanced and more revealing is Wills’s other remark—that “Everett’s classicism was as much the forerunner of Lincoln’s talk as its foil or contrast.”
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
