Crossword-Solution: CLASSICIST
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Classicist | n. | One learned in the classics; an advocate for the classics. |
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| A STUDENT OF ANCIENT GREEK AND LATIN | 11 answers |
| Scholar | 70 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with CLASSICIST (5)
The events of 1560-62 forced Buchanan, as they forced many a learned man besides, to choose whether he would be a child of light or a child of darkness; whether he would be a dilettante classicist, or a preacher--it might be a martyr--of the Gospel.
From these characteristics of style we divine those of the mind for which it serves as a tool.--Two principal operations constitute the activity of the human understanding.--Observing things and events, it receives a more or less complete, profound and exact impression of these; and after this, turning away from them, it analyses its impressions, and classifies, distributes, and more or less skillfully expresses the ideas derived from them.--In the second of these operations the classicist is superior.
First of all Jonson was a classicist, that is, he believed in restraint and precedent in art in opposition to the prevalent ungoverned and irresponsible Renaissance spirit.
Jonson was neither in this, his first great comedy (nor in any other play that he wrote), a supine classicist, urging that English drama return to a slavish adherence to classical conditions.
How soft and sweet a breath steals over the senses and the heart!" And how difficult it seems to be to write of Chopin except in terms of impassioned prose! Louis Ehlert, a romantic in feeling and a classicist in theory, is the writer of the foregoing.
Quotes with CLASSICIST (3)
They [the critics] deal with Schoenberg’s early works and all their wealth by classifying them, with the music-historical cliché, as late romantic post-Wagnerian. One might just as well dispose of Beethoven as a late-classicist post-Haydnerian.
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
In my own work, I'd say I'm a classicist, but I look everywhere for my solutions. I don't study the toilet-living habits of my clients, although that's a popular approach. First, I think of every building in history that has been similar in purpose. Then I think of the functional program - that's a major part of the study.