classicist
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Ms. Kuin, a classicist at the University of Virginia, presents many of them in “Diogenes: The Rebellious Life and Revolutionary Philosophy of the Original Cynic.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025
"Edison Denisov was a classicist with very subtle yet strict logic. Alfred Schnittke was a romantic. My style could be best described as archaic."
From BBC • Mar. 14, 2025
His papers at the University of Illinois — he was a classicist there — have yet to be processed.
From Salon • Apr. 20, 2024
In “The Motive and the Cue,” Burton tries to stamp his brash personality on Hamlet, while the classicist Gielgud wants something more sensitively attuned to Burton’s deeper emotions.
From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2023
Coleman is a classicist who studied at Oxford and a former consultant for McKinsey & Company who clearly enjoys his role as a provocateur.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
