classicist
Example Sentences
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By the late-19th century, “Grub Street” had become a generic term for ambitious, worldly—and mostly talentless—writers, everything the classicist Gissing abhorred.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 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
“The classicist who wants to be modern, meeting the modernist who wants to be classical.”
From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2023
Of “truths” like geocentrism, the four elements of the material universe, or the body’s four “humors,” one classicist has asked Why prove them?
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
