He was a classicist and a student very much more than a man of action.
His understanding was solid, but he was a thorough classicist, and his taste in poetry was formed on Pope.
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But it was also involved in an age-old theoretical battle fought by rationalist, reformist andclassicistcritics.
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Perhaps the famous crossgenerational debate among classicists between 'modernist' and 'primitivist' interpretations did not always zero in on the most pertinent issues.
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This is clearly discernible in the importance of ceremonial scenes in reform andclassicistopera.
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We may have to behave like classicists, recreating a society from a pottery-shard.
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Some have tried to extrapolate from his theological genius and present him as an outstandingclassicistand exegete as well.
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In spoken drama, above all in the closed forms ofclassicistdrama, a large, sometimes even predominant, part of the action is usually unseen.
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The book as a whole should appeal strongly to scholars interested in the history of ideas, linguistic anthropologists, sociolinguists, classicists, and social scientists.
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This book clearly deserves the attention of classicists and sociolinguists alike.
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By this attention to argument, theologians and classicists accept the tradition of analytic philosophy.
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Classicisttheories of art selectively applied both dimensions.
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Bayesians reply that classicists also commonly, but unsystematically, use prior information but without explicitly stating that fact.
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Richardson himself was not really aclassicistbut a high eclectic.
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But it would be a pity if classicists were to think that this very particular and very partial view represented the full scope of the discipline.
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I am inclined to fear that, so long as editors draw only on the talents of theologians and decline to consult trained classicists or philosophers, nothing will.
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The pureclassicistis far closer to the pure physicist than either the practical engineer or the manager.
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