classicism
Example Sentences
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Greco-Roman classicism traveled east and influenced the depiction of Buddhist subjects.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
“Dreamworld” opens, in the section “Waking Dream,” with harbingers of Surrealism—fusing classicism and modernism, reality and fantasy—by Giorgio de Chirico, whom Apollinaire described as a painter of things beyond the observable.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025
"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
