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  • And in the disputing between Classicists and Romanticists it has invariably happened that the Classicists were the earlier generation, and therefore more given to convention, while the

    The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

  • I like the idea of Classicists proselytising their subject as the best way of getting to grips with tentacle hentai; if it’d been sold to me that way I may well have succumbed to Seneca and not seaweed.

    "Let them learn Latin" 2006

  • Keynes favored a unified monetary policy and scandalized 'Classicists' with the proposition that a national budget is not merely an accounting of government revenues and expenditures but an instrument by which a national economic policy may be effected.

    The Existentialist Cowboy 2009

  • Keynes favored a unified monetary policy and scandalized 'Classicists' with the proposition that a national budget is not merely an accounting of government revenues and expenditures but an instrument by which a national economic policy may be effected.

    The Existentialist Cowboy 2009

  • Classicists have had to piece together clues about its design from vase images, carved reliefs and bad jokes in ancient plays, generating competing theories about its size, structure and speed.

    Epic Struggle: Fans Fight to Revive an Oar-Powered Greek Warship Sophia Hollander 2011

  • This compositional technique, employed by both ancient and modern Classicists, helps account for the statue's monumental effect.

    Our First President, in Three Dimensions Catesby Leigh 2011

  • And while Johannes Brahms, the most scrupulous of Romantic Classicists, observed that "the prodigy, the itinerant virtuoso and the man of fashion ruined the composer before he even started," he also avowed that "whoever has not heard Liszt cannot even speak of piano playing."

    At the Ravinia Festival, A Liszt of Subtle Works Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011

  • Classicists of the Brahms camp, nurtured by Schumann and by Mendelssohn's legacy, followed Beethoven's lead, writing symphonies and instrumental sonatas in which each movement was a separate, closed form.

    At the Ravinia Festival, A Liszt of Subtle Works Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011

  • Classicists may think of any number of demigods from classical mythology.

    Half Human On His Mother's Side James F. McGrath 2009

  • I just keep picturing the final scene of Easy Rider though -- maybe the New Objectivists/Neo-Classicists are the gun-wielding yokels?

    Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Matthew Guerrieri 2007

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