classicize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
verb
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(tr) to make classic
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(intr) to imitate classical style
Etymology
Origin of classicize
Example Sentences
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It was enough for him to classicize the realistic incident.
From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Hartley, Marsden
The cartoonish face on a classicized statue jump-starts the statue with an incongruity that magnetizes passers-by.
From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2022
That embedment can take place through the weight of the stainless steel or the careful soldering of the aluminum, or the classicized majesty he brings to his subjects.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2022
It was an architectural space exuberantly of its age, right on the boundary between the classicized past and the industrialized future.
From Time Magazine Archive
He saw the consummate art and artificiality of Wagner, and preferred it to all other music, at a time when the German master was ignored and despised by a classicized musical world.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright
In these ways she becomes a kind of revivification of the spirit of Watteau, who has made perfect, for us all, what is perfect in the classicized ideality of experience.
From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Hartley, Marsden
The artist proves himself no less adept at the characteristic motion of a very different kind of theater, the stately, self-possessed, classicizing motion of the opera house.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2019
If you want Della Robbia to express a classicizing purity — like blue-and-white Wedgewood china — then the push toward chromatic verisimilitude is unnerving.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2017
Yet the weight of reminiscence, the self-imposed force of his classicizing devotion, has kept him from yielding uninhibitedly to the power of his visions.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 2, 2016
It’s a little different from the alternately classicizing and primitivizing take on the black figure in photographs by the Boston artist F. Holland Day at the end of the 19th century.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2016
These classicizing poems, which purport to express modern feeling in the terms of Greek mythology, sound now a little hollow and conventional.
From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Thomas, Calvin
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