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
The church has been an interesting building of Norman date, but was extensively classicized in the last century.
From Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes)
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
The classicizing enthusiasm for a trivial movie such as “Upgrade” reflects a cinematic Goldilocks principle—a craving for movies that are neither too big nor too small but just right.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 5, 2018
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
In between are works from artists like Valie Export and Rineke Dijkstra, whose photographs over a period of several years of a young Bosnian refugee function as a classicizing personalization of geopolitics and exile.
From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2010
They remind us of the façades of the palaces of Vicenza, which, designed by the pompous and classicizing Palladio, are executed in stucco and other cheap materials.
From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Rosenfeld, Paul
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