CLASSIC in a Sentence

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Part Five of this book will reveal that many contemporary political regimes are powerfully influenced by classical liberalism.

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classic
 n.  work of acknowledged excellence and authority, or its author; creation of the highest excellence
Classic Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  Wellington is classic war taking its revenge.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE?
2  He was a liberal, a classic, and a Bonapartist.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS
3  His tendency, and we say it with the proper amount of regret, would not constitute classic taste.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—HE IS AGREEABLE
4  When he emerged from the hands of Aunt Gillenormand, his grandfather confided him to a worthy professor of the most purely classic innocence.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT
5  She reveled in the Art Institute, in symphonies and violin recitals and chamber music, in the theater and classic dancing.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
6  Guy Pollock answered with disconcerting readiness, "I'll tell you: since we're going to try to do something artistic, and not simply fool around, I believe we ought to give something classic."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
7  His fine face, classic as that of a Greek statue, seemed actually to burn with the fervor of his feelings.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
8  Should there be a classic period to art hereafter, its Pheidias may produce such faces.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 1 "My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is"
9  This case deserves to be a classic.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
10  The affair seems absurdly trifling, and yet I dare call nothing trivial when I reflect that some of my most classic cases have had the least promising commencement.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
11  It must be confessed that the artist sometimes got possession of the woman, and indulged in antique coiffures, statuesque attitudes, and classic draperies.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
12  The thing was as impossible as to mould my irregular features to his correct and classic pattern, to give to my changeable green eyes the sea-blue tint and solemn lustre of his own.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
13  Anatole was sitting upright in the classic pose of military dandies, the lower part of his face hidden by his beaver collar and his head slightly bent.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIX
14  He certainly did add 'spirit' to the meetings, and 'a tone' to the paper, for his orations convulsed his hearers and his contributions were excellent, being patriotic, classical, comical, or dramatic, but never sentimental.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TEN
15  If I only had a classical nose and mouth I should be perfectly happy, she said, surveying herself with a critical eye and a candle in each hand.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
Example Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
16  He's a classic example of a kid who's clever but lazy.
17  He also was influenced by the emerging Craftsman movement and the classic Mission style he found in California.
18  The classic black dress is always in style.
19  Many of these films tell classic stories in the traditional way that used to be Hollywood's exclusive domain. Now, with the studios focusing on games, comic book superheroes and putative tent poles, that business has gone elsewhere.
20  The embers of that effort can be seen still crackling in Wright's audacious adaptation of that most classic of Russian novels: Anna Karenina.
21  McCartney was also keen to write in a classical idiom, rather than a pop one.
22  I could not force my body into the contortions required by classical ballet.
23  The newcomer on the radio scene is a commercial station devoted to classical music.
24  Both Bach and Beethoven wrote classical music.
25  Part Five of this book will reveal that many contemporary political regimes are powerfully influenced by classical liberalism.
26  Einstein's new theory on optics changed classical scientific ideas about light.
27  Mr. Williams was known as an adept improviser who effortlessly switched between classical, jazz and pop styles.
28  The classical methods of navigation are still useful in today's application.
29  She is well versed in classical languages.
30  The sound of classical music is usually just anodyne I need after a tough day at work.