Sentence examples for break with the classical from inspiring English sources

Sleek modern ballets, he insisted, were not a break with the classical tradition of the past.

Lessing was, in fact, not the first German writer to challenge this tradition, but it is fair to say that his play marks the decisive break with the classical French drama that still dominated the German stage.

Nearby are two small sculptures by Rodin, who was arguably the first and most important artist to break with the classical tradition of sculpture in the late 19th century.

Although this era of Japanese art history is rather obscure, he is credited with being one of the founders (along with Iwasa Matabei II and Iwasa Matabei of Otsu) of ukiyo-e, whose woodcuts of the "floating world" or the world of everyday life represented a drastic break with the classical tradition.

Rather than seeing Machiavelli assimilating virtù with classical virtue, Skinner observes that Machiavelli's exclusion of justice from republican virtù is an epoch-making break with the classical republican analysis of the cardinal virtues as expounded in Cicero's Of Duties.

This work, which broke with the classical portraiture of the time, was a colossal success.

In this sense I broke with the classical ethnographic approach that involves participation in one locality for a long period of time.

Romantic art, therefore, breaks with the classical ideal of beauty and incorporates real human frailty, pain and suffering into its images of Christ (and also of religious martyrs).

So it's necessary to create a new Chinese language that doesn't break entirely with the classical but which retains a contemporary quality people can identify with.

Beethoven broke ties with the Classical period with his final piano sonata, the mystical Opus 111.

Strawson broke ranks with the classical compatibilists.