Ruskin
noun
John, 1819–1900, English author, art critic, and social reformer.
Ruskinian
-
a word derived from
Ruskin.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
An eclectic marvel combining elements of Italian villa, Gothic revival, Ruskinian Venetian, French mansard, the mansion stands amid 327 acres of woods and meadow, chock-full of Oriental rugs, Thonet chairs, Tiffany glass and Persian tiles.
From Time Magazine Archive
Aestheticism was amoral; it didn't hew to Ruskinian axioms of morally perfect realistic truth.
From Time Magazine Archive
Upon which he produced, at a couple of sittings, "The King of the Golden River," a pretty medley of Grimm's grotesque and Dickens' kindliness and the true Ruskinian ecstasy of the Alps.
From The Life of John Ruskin by W. G. (William Gershom) Collingwood
He wrote a magazine paper on the zoology of the Lombardic pillars in Verona, very Ruskinian, very scornful of modern motive.
From Indian Summer by William Dean Howells
Really the passage might have come out of Fors Clavigera; it is Ruskinian not only in sentiment, but in turn of expression.
From The Vagabond in Literature by Arthur Rickett
