classicalism

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We want to create a sustained counter effort to the perpetual tendency of all educational organisations towards classicalism, secondary issues, and the evasion of life.

From The New Machiavelli by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

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

From A Preface to Politics by Lippmann, Walter

There the pioneering impulse has passed out of life into stupid history books, and the inevitable classicalism, the fear of adventure, the superstition before social invention, have reasserted themselves.

From A Preface to Politics by Lippmann, Walter

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

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