Sentence examples for feeling of classical from inspiring English sources

Palladio studied the architecture of ancient Rome, codified its elements in a famous treatise, and started putting porticoes and pediments and domes on the houses of the landed gentry, conferring on them a feeling of classical pedigree.

"As for Mr Keats's Endymion, it has just as much to do with Greece as it has with 'old Tartary the fierce'; no man, whose mind has ever been imbued with the smallest knowledge or feeling of classical poetry or classical history, could have stooped to profane and vulgarise every association in the manner which has been adopted by this 'son of promise'", ran the Blackwood's review.

His nude "Diana," of which there are several versions, attempts to evoke the feeling of the Classical Greek nude.

In 1954, Leonard Bernstein summed up the feelings of many classical musicians, saying, "The themes are terrific inspired, God-given.

You had the feeling of attending a classical chamber music concert at which the performers verbally supplied reverential annotation.

Shōka incorporates many of the structural rules and classical feeling of the ancient Ikenobō school.

"There seems to be a feeling that a good solid knowledge of classical languages will help students later on in their vocabulary and SATs," said Robert Rader, executive director of the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education.

Byron was perhaps the most prominent of the Philhellenes, volunteers from the European and American aristocracy who -- besotted by visions of classical Greece and feeling solidarity with their fellow Christians -- took up arms against the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence.

Dispensing with the restraints of classical unity, the Romantics were flushed with feeling, with inconstancy, hopeless love, angst, dreams and tempests.

Dumas explains: "There is a very elegiac feeling about his garden paintings; he is retreating to this golden world of classical art.

His work marries the best elements of classical form with the freedom and expressiveness of modern dance… The overall feeling for the observer is one of exhilaration and awakening.