Sentence examples for classical ideals of from inspiring English sources

With Felix Mendelssohn (1809 47) a return to Classical ideals of form is seen, coupled, however, with Romantic enthusiasm.

That the world still cringes in the shadow of classical ideals of beauty is not my fault.

Dr Brookes introduced laurel crowns and medallions bearing a likeness of Nike, the Greek goddess of victory, and recalled classical ideals of healthy minds in healthy bodies.

She defended the classical ideals of work, citizenship, and political action against what she considered a debased obsession with mere welfare.

Hitler despised them for their insults to classical ideals of human beauty and for what he called, in another context, "liberalistic concepts of the individual".

Here, exuberance is relegated to color and surface gloss, while the overall composition of a work is held to classical ideals of proportion and order.

In its way it was a potential tourist attraction, a contemporary manifestation of the classical ideal of squalor.

Ben Jonson's poem, number 101 (CI) of his Epigrams balances the luxury and liberty of happy home-dining with the classical ideal of restraint.

Part Two is in a sense a poetic reckoning with Goethe's own times, with their irresistible dynamism and their alienation from his Classical ideal of fulfilled humanity.

Holbein, like Dürer, believed in the Italian Renaissance with its classical ideal of beauty; he may have visited Italy, and he definitely saw Italian paintings, probably including portraits by Leonardo da Vinci, in France.

Kunkel, who grew up in Colorado, went from Deep Springs College, a tiny, all-male school in the California desert devoted to the classical ideal of rigorous study in a pastoral setting, to Harvard, where he met Greif, though not Gessen, who was also there at the time.