classicalism

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Once landed, I began to wish that the comparison I had drawn for the Konak was a more just one, and that inside its card-board classicalism could be found the slightest approach to American hospitality.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 by Various

We have almost no spiritual weapons against classicalism: universities, churches, newspapers are by-products of a commercial success; we have no tradition of intellectual revolt.

From A Preface to Politics by Lippmann, Walter

In Dutch furniture of this time one sees the reproduction of the Napoleonic fashion—the continuation of the Revolutionists' classicalism.

From Illustrated History of Furniture From the Earliest to the Present Time by Litchfield, Frederick

Flaxman, to his credit, in spite of his classicalism, was one of the first to draw attention 32to the work.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Dearmer, Percy

The United States, you imagine, would of all nations be the freest from classicalism.

From A Preface to Politics by Lippmann, Walter