neoclassicist
- a word derived from neoclassic.
- a word derived from neoclassicism.
Example Sentences
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But it also turns him into a lonely, rigidly neoclassicist oddball who scorns his professors, prefers books to his flighty peers and still can’t seem to take care of himself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2025
An academic neoclassicist, Adam approaches rap as a kind of imitation based on careful and thorough study.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 9, 2018
He was directly responsible for introducing Stravinsky, a staunch neoclassicist, to the art of 12-tone music, an avant-garde compositional technique whose best-known avatar was Arnold Schoenberg.
From New York Times ● Nov. 14, 2015
To Jonson, a renowned neoclassicist, Shakespeare’s Latin may have seemed small, but that doesn’t mean he was poorly educated.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 4, 2015
But it is hardly true that Purney's "true kinship is with the romantics," as Mr. White claims, for there is a wide chasm between a romantic and a daring and extravagant neoclassicist.
From A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) by Purney, Thomas
