Choosing from various styles or ideas

Usage examples of eclectic.

The decor was stylish to a point where it transcended style and entered the realms of perspicuous harmony, shunning grandiloquent ornamentation in favour of a visual concinnity, garnered from aesthetic principles, which combined the austerity of Bauhaus and ebullience of Burges14 into an eclectic mix before stripping them down to their fundamental essentials, to create an effect which was almost aphoristic, in that it could be experienced but never completely expressed.

Sarabande had eclectic tastes, but she was easily bored, especially when biz awaited.

Just an eclectic and healthy collection of cichlids and labyrinthine fish.

Not all the dishes were from Indiain fact, the party would have a rather eclectic mix of Indian, British, and French dishes, for Gopal was trading lessons in Indian cuisine for those in Continental cooking with an expatriate Parisian cook he had come to be acquainted with.

Freudianity pitted against Jungism, orthodoxy against orthodoxy, and both against the eclectic Modernism which is gradually taking their place.

Italy--imitating not the best models either, but the Mannerists, the Eclectics, and the Roman painters of the Decadence.

The artwork was eclectic, a mix of the best of many periods and hands, including several African masks and a small stone figure that, to her unschooled eye, looked pre-Columbian.

The Eclectic Medical University reported the use of but six small animals in its research work.

The Naturalists were, perhaps, more firmly based upon nature than the Bolognese Eclectics.

Italy, a diligent student of the great Italians, especially the Venetians, Correggio, and the Bolognese Eclectics.

With rare insight and rarer taste he discountenanced the prevalent Merovingian hand, and substituted in eclectic hand, known as the Carolingian Minuscule, which way still be regarded as a model of clearness and elegance.

She danced through an eclectic melange of sound that comfortably encompassed Offenbach and Elton John.

Like an eclectic Greek he drew from all sources, and then blended and united these features in a peculiar style of his own and stamped them with his peculiar Raphaelesque stamp.

At first Rhodine was noticeably uncomfortable with all the attention she was receiving from the rest of the audience, a very eclectic group indeed.

Lou was married to a Chinese woman who did the cooking, so the place served an eclectic menu of egg rolls, chow mein, shaslik, rice pilaf, hot and sour soup, baklava and fortune cookies.