Sentence examples for example of classical from inspiring English sources

In the 1960s William Baumol and William Bowen used the example of classical music to show that some activities are not susceptible to improvements in labour productivity.

Shielded from the sun behind rows of elegant baffles, the building had a clean, stripped-down style that made it a sparkling example of classical Modernism while heralding Brazil's emergence as a vibrant center of experimentation.

The statue of Mars and Venus that greets visitors to the official residence of Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister, is a striking example of classical Roman sculpture but to certain observers it seemed incomplete.

On Thursday night, Ashley Tuttle's Odette-Odile was so perfectly danced that any one frozen moment or pose would have provided a textbook example of classical body line -- beautifully shaped feet, in particular -- and how that communicates the essence of each character and also places that character in the given moment.

Open image in new window Fig. 1 An example of classical hunter prey problem on a (14 times 14) grid.

"[The study] is a really wonderful example of classical comparative embryology," says evolutionary morphologist Ann Burke of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, who did her dissertation on turtle development.

Examples of classical ballets that have survived in repertoires throughout the world are Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake and The Nutcracker.

The orchestra's music director, Michael Shapiro, noting that both of those works have jazz influences, will round out the program with two more examples of classical jazz, Milhaud's "Creation of the World" and Gershwin's "American in Paris".

In the late eighties, True met the New York collectors Lawrence and Barbara Fleischman, who were important clients of Symes's and had been filling their East Side duplex with spectacular examples of classical art.

Two benchmark examples of classical music video, Henri-Georges Clouzot's film of Karajan leading the Verdi Requiem (1967, Deutsche Grammophon) and Bruno Monsaingeon's "Glenn Gould: The Alchemist" (1974, EMI), show how the camera can slow itself to a thoughtful, contemplative gaze that actually takes in what's happening.

With its incomparable examples of classical, baroque and renaissance architecture, ornate city squares and landscaped gardens, you might think Rome could not be a more perfect location for the suave and sophisticated British secret agent James Bond in his new adventure Spectre.