adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a classical actor (= acting parts from important traditional literature )
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a drama school that trains classical actors
a pop/rock/jazz/classical concert
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There were 150,000 people at the rock concert in Frankfurt.
an acoustic/an electric/a classical guitar
classical (= relating to the style of Ancient Greece or Rome )
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a large building of classical design
literary/classical/cultural etc allusions
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Eliot’s poetry is full of biblical allusions.
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In his poetry we find many allusions to the human body.
modern/classical/medieval etc architecture
pop/rock/classical etc music
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Johnny Cash was one of country music’s greatest stars.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
antiquity
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Roman funerary customs; art and mythology; women in classical antiquity .
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For the Renaissance: a reverential longing to recapture classical antiquity .
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For most philosophers of classical antiquity the world was both animate and divine.
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The Kalahari only partly closes the way to the South; and the Sahara was crossed as early as classical antiquity .
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For the first time in classical antiquity the nuclear family had assumed a central role in the politics of state.
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Dealers in primitive, tribal, Oriental art, classical antiquities , and objetsd'art are excluded.
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An array of sculpture is also on view, revealing the influence of mythology and foreign culture in classical antiquity .
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It follows the restrained style associated with classical antiquity .
architecture
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Competitors felt, as events were to prove with considerable justification, that official opinion favoured classical architecture .
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In re-planning the east wing galleries, built in 1928-32, great efforts have been made to respect their dignified classical architecture .
art
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There are many collectors of modern and classical art in the island.
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In doing so, it departs from the traditional, purely stylistic approach to classical art .
ballet
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Black dancers fared even worse in classical ballet .
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But this was only innovative in so far as classical ballet was concerned as there are many 5/4 Slav folk dances.
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But he thought the piece needed more work, and he wanted to get a better feeling for the classical ballet .
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Purely classical ballets are still popular, so there have to be choreographers who understand and mould the technique.
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But she realised that more serious training in classical ballet was necessary, and went to Edouard Espinosa for classes.
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There are forms of dance which we all admit as forms of art: for example, classical ballet .
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These have led to the same stereotyping of characters as happens in classical ballet .
conditioning
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Indeed, Pavlov believed that the study of classical conditioning was the only way to study the functions of the cerebral cortex.
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The assumptions about classical conditioning that are implied by this notion must be rather different from those embodied in the standard model.
dance
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The above examples are all slightly parodied versions of classical dance steps.
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Olivia Rojo boasts more than two decades of classical dance training.
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It has evolved from the simplest folk through the mannered court and finally to the expert classical dance .
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Yet Ashton found ways of so moulding classical dance that the ladies even danced sur les pointes in so Edwardian a setting.
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A delightful repertoire of contemporary &038; classical dance &038; music.
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If choreographers have had training in classical dance , they already have a large vocabulary of movement on which to call.
education
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He read little, and his exclusively classical education left only the faintest impression on his mind.
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He is said to have a good classical education , and is a Gentleman of considerable literary talents.
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Having laid the foundation of a compleat classical education at Harvard College, he pursues every other study with ease.
form
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Further south the Romanesque architecture is traditional but strongly tinged with classical forms from Rome.
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This means that no evidence could possibly count against Freudian theory in its classical form .
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Later, when Invercargill was extended it adopted a classical form .
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In truth, therefore, serial variation forms have not the theme-based unity of the classical form.
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Some of the canons of the classical form still apply.
law
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All the more in classical law , when the formal and procedural differences still applied.
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There is no reason to believe in enforcement of a modus in private circumstances in classical law .
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The works of Scaevola apart, classical law seems to have continued to distinguish between legacy and trust.
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The differences between legacies and trusts persisted throughout classical law .
liberalism
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Yet this wave of social legislation could not easily be reconciled with the tenets of classical liberalism .
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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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As suggested in Chapter 2, a view of res publica based on classical liberalism would be more limited.
literature
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In classical literature and ethics hypocrisy is condemned as undermining the essential distinction between good and evil.
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There are many references in classical literature to Orphic poetry and Orphic rites.
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For example: is the subject taken from classical literature with its firm structural rules like those which govern Balanchine's Apollo?
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This lasting antipathy coexisted in his mind with a rare mastery of philosophical debate and classical literature .
mechanics
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For the purpose of discussion we shall consider a conservative force in classical mechanics and we shall work in space only.
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Moreover, the specific Newtonian scheme has given rise to a remarkable body of mathematical ideas known as classical mechanics .
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First let us establish how the geodesic equation simplifies when the motion can be described approximately by classical mechanics .
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It tells us, in effect, that classical mechanics can not actually be true of our world!
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In classical mechanics one can predict the results of measuring both the position and the velocity of a particle.
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The new wine of quantum theory was soon bursting the old wineskins of classical mechanics .
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The rays of geometrical optics are not unlike the particle trajectories of classical mechanics .
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This again shows how the metric connections correspond to the inertial accelerations and forces of classical mechanics .
model
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However, as I suggested in Chapter 1, the basic assumptions of Beccaria's classical model suggest a much wider canvas.
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The curriculum would follow the classical model , though only up to a point.
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So, only approximations to the classical model can be achieved.
music
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The recipe is mind-numbingly simple: shots of pretty landscapes set to classical music .
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A lot of jazz and classical music was part of my music too, thanks to my uncle.
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The atmosphere was of a calm Edinburgh café: classical music played softly.
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The rich, and white, citizens are pulling up the cultural drawbridge to the sound of classical music .
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Short recordings of classical music caused their activity to decrease, sometimes to levels half of that before the music started.
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There are now two floors of music and video, with separate departments for singles and for classical music.
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As a social service, how about installing our own classical music boom box?
musician
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Did those scribes care for their hands, tend their fingers, in the way classical musicians are reputed to?
mythology
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Nor can mosaic pavements offer any guidance, since their themes are commonly drawn from classical mythology .
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The terrifying irrational has no place in classical mythology .
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Sirens, in classical mythology sea-nymphs who by their singing lured sailors to destruction on hidden rocks.
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As I watch her, she is introducing her class to the first item on her syllabus, classical mythology .
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History paintings had to be grand and didactic, with subjects drawn from the Bible, classical mythology and history.
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Rhadamanthus, stern judge; in classical mythology , one of those in the infernal regions.
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In any case, even within technical, i.e. classical mythology , Orpheus was a singer, not a fish.
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Secondly, the magic of the island is here composed of Renaissance learning, imagery and classical mythology .
period
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Hence trumpets crooked in all keys are to be found in scores of the classical period .
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Later, in the classical period , heifers sacrificed to Dionysos at Tenedos were slaughtered with a double-axe.
physics
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Deterministic laws of atomic arrangements in the triumphant years of classical physics seemed to lie behind the phenomena of life.
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This is what classical physics has taught us about the nature of physical reality.
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Quantum mechanical states, however, differ in two important respects from those of classical physics .
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Other western sciences exclude difficult aspects of subjectivity from their portraits of themselves, as in classical physics .
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Problems with classical theory How do we know that classical physics is not actually true of our world?
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Laing rejected classical psychoanalysis just as quantum theory rejected classical physics .
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Too negligible to have practical effect in classical physics , it adds up over trillions of years.
scholar
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Justus Lipsius was the classical scholar who introduced him into the military sphere.
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He has long been famous as a classical scholar , and more recently as a philanthropist.
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But he demanded high standards and as a classical scholar was exasperated by my inability to cope with Latin.
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Elizabeth Carter and Constantia Grierson established themselves as classical scholars .
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Scipio did cry, and classical scholars are therefore entitled to ask how many tears he shed.
study
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There are other classical studies that attempt to, understand how organisations work.
style
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Of classical style this piece was certainly an import and it reveals the high quality of the Roman art form.
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All of the poems are written in the classical style .
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Wigglesworth expected to spend days re-establishing a classical style - but no, they knew about Mozart, and economy and focus.
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To make Scott design a building in the classical style was the worst possible course.
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It taught many others how classical style could be adapted and developed.
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But from the early years of the twentieth century to the 1930s classical styles reigned supreme for all larger city stations.
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They must retain the calm spaciousness of movement if they are not to destroy the essence of the classical style .
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It is perhaps not surprising that choreographers use the classical style fur most abstract ballets.
technique
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As explained elsewhere classical technique is the most demanding.
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This type of situation does not permit classical techniques of research.
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It is widely recognised that the classical technique can and does prove a stable basis fur all styles of dance.
theory
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Time is not considered in classical theories yet no experiment can be made which does not involve time.
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This gives a vast space of possible states-much more than for afield in classical theory .
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Friedman's statement of the natural rate hypothesis went a long way towards reconciling such evidence with basic classical theory .
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The predictability is as clear-cut as it is in the classical theory .
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In this approach, a particle does not have just a single history, as it would in a classical theory .
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Indeed, what is observed is quite inexplicable on the basis of classical theory .
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The classical theory of comparative advantage is often taught as if everyone benefits from trade.
times
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These advantages of the procedural system are the advantages of classical times .
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They carried huge canvas paintings depicting scenes from the Bible and classical times .
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In classical times every garden and orchard had one.
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His solution would have been unthinkable in classical times .
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So much for a tradition whose origins may be traced back to early classical times !
tradition
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P.S. It centres the classical traditions in a way that no other kind of training can do.
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She comes from the classical tradition but is deeply involved with improvisation and had played with Bailey on several previous occasions.
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Most of the critical treatises in the classical tradition are trite and commonplace.
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He liked the reference to the classical tradition .
world
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The therapeutic properties of amber were widely recognized in the classical world .
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Pianist-composer Childs is a hometown phenomenon busy carving out a career between the jazz and classical worlds .
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Delphi Once the religious and moral capital of the classical world .
writer
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But not all the classical writers were Realists.
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Inspection of Figure 7.2 should make it quite clear how the neoclassical synthesis has been modified by the new classical writers .
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The classical writers completely ignored the existence of such factors.
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Of course, you will have to have one single underlying tug, just as the classical writers had their who-dun-it tug.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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classical architecture
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a classical CD
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Lima is one of Brazil's top classical pianists.
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The problem involves classical physics, as opposed to quantum physics.
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The vase is a piece of modern art done in a classical Chinese style.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Behind the harpsichord and under the window there was a low glass cabinet which contained two or three classical pieces.
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But these classical kids just stood around in rehearsal waiting to be shown what to do.
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Moreover, the specific Newtonian scheme has given rise to a remarkable body of mathematical ideas known as classical mechanics.
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Newtonian mechanics, wave optics and classical electromagnetism all constituted and perhaps constitute paradigms and qualify as sciences.
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Of classical style this piece was certainly an import and it reveals the high quality of the Roman art form.
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The San Diego Symphony may be mired in bankruptcy, but classical radio never has been livelier.
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This is probably the safest choice that a rookie classical music giver can make this season.
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What, then, of the notion of a late classical fusion of legacy and trust?