inartistic

• “Whether they ought to be called inartistic or not, we will leave time to decide, if it has not done so already; the Russian and other Slavonic composers, who are now coming more and more to the front, seem to be little in doubt as to their legitimacy.”

  Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician

• “Whatever their source, there was, either in the composition itself or in his mode of playing, not a little of the inartistic, that is, the lawless.”

  Mary Marston

• “Every personal soul, however "inartistic," is an artist in this sense; and every personal life thus considered is an effective or ineffective "work of art.”

  The Complex Vision

• “Old portraits and any kind of inartistic picture or print were brought forth to gratify the eye unaccustomed to such monotony.”

  Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood,

• “Timon changes from benevolence to sour misanthropy with a many inartistic abruptness, many readers feel.”

  Archive 2009-11-01

• “His best stories, essays, and poems went begging among them, and yet, each month, he read reams of dull, prosy, inartistic stuff between all their various covers.”

  Chapter 28

• “In fact, for him to die elsewhere would be inartistic and insincere.”

  The Gold Hunters of the North

• “She was painfully inartistic, as Mr. Hofstram was happy to constantly point out to her.”

  Simon & Schuster: Slice Of Cherry

• “As for me, though I am largely inartistic, I am sure I would much prefer the coloring book.”

  The Intelligent Design Coloring Book -- and more - The Panda's Thumb

• “Why does John Carey want them to stop calling it that, unless they also stipulate that "anything" can be art if claiming otherwise makes the "inartistic" feel bad?”

  The State of Criticism

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