What is "classical style"

Usage examples of "classical style".

The implication being that somebody was faking a masculine classical style, and by officially classifying genuine work as fraudulent, they have, in effect, deprived Lady Hou of her identity.

The sward was punctuated by stone slabs carved with inscriptions in the classical style.

All the signs are that the stage is being set for a so-called war of liberation in the classical style, and world opinion is being preconditioned to make it difficult for the West to react effectively.

She said I would do better with a wife who was not in the classical style.

Babeuf, the French revolutionary, evidently took the name Gracchus in imitation of the classical style of these titles.

Bregno was prolific, had taste, proficiency in the classical style, and was good at carving decorative reliefs.

A classical style, I think, but no white powder to hide her natural color.

Though no architect, Joanna sensed that the lower ceilings and rambling, irregular layout of the inner rooms bespoke tastes less selfconsciously elegant than those which had renovated the older palace in the classical style.

He felt a pang of jealousy as he never bothered to perfect his brush in the classical style, and carried on most of his correspondence in French, which he also thought in.

At the bottom of a long slope, the walkway led to a balustraded garden temple in the classical style.

Done in what Magda thought of as the classical style, it showed the goddess serenely at peace with herself and her world.

Although smaller than Dragonard Hill, the main house at Greenleaf Plantation was painted white and proportioned in a similar classical style.