Sentence examples for classical obsession from inspiring English sources

If anything is surprising about the classical obsession in 18th-century three-dimensional portraits, it is the incongruous association of extreme naturalism with Ancient Roman garb that so often verges on caricature.

However, his classical obsessions have already found their way into Radiohead albums.

A postrecession emphasis on sobriety may help to explain why many brands, in choosing complications to spotlight this year, have turned from the tourbillon to one of watchmaking's more practical and classical obsessions: calendar functions.

They embody San Francisco's neo-Classical obsession during the Beaux-Arts era.

The working methods of yMusic quietly repudiate one of the more stultifying aspects of classical tradition: the obsession with fidelity to the written score, in which the performer lives to serve the composer.

The anniversary obsession in classical music became stifling this year, with performances of Wagner, Verdi, Britten, and Stravinsky filling the schedule.

And in recent decades his art has been unjustly associated with postmodernism's tired obsession with classical motifs.

In contrast to the classical music world's obsession with trying to find visual expression, Doug is stark in its simplicity.

Piranesi's obsession with classical antiquity drew him into one of the great debates of his era, between French architects and academics who sought a return to Greek models, and Italian nationalists like Piranesi who argued for the superiority of Roman architecture.

Given the obsession with classical culture in Indian-American communities nationwide, the dearth of homegrown professionalism is striking.

Since then he has run Glyndebourne and the Peter Hall Company, which he set up with Thelma Holt, and which allowed him to continue his twin obsessions of classical theatre (Twelfth Night in 1991, Lysistrata in '93 and King Lear in '97) and contemporary works (The Gift Of The Gorgon by Peter Shaffer in '93 and Kafka's Dick by Alan Bennett in '98).