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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

Early on, Mr. Hollander was tagged a formalist or neoclassicist for his commitment to old-fashioned forms.

From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2013

The big, bluesy, lazily swinging sound that saxophonist Eric Alexander drew from such bygone tenor-sax giants as Dexter Gordon has inevitably cast the gifted 44-year-old from Illinois as a jazz neoclassicist.

From The Guardian • Jan. 12, 2013

Rapin is primarily a neoclassicist in his "Treatise"; Fontenelle, a rationalist in his "Discours."

From De Carmine Pastorali (1684) by Congleton, J. E. (James Edmund)