How to Use classicist in a Sentence

classicist

noun

• Yet Foo Fighters have been proud to be classicists, keepers of the flame.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2017
• How and why these stones were lost is a subject of some debate among classicists.
  — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 1 May 2023
• Mu, a lawyer by day and a classicist at heart, wanted to lean into the old-timey details while adding an edge.
  — Carly Olson, House Beautiful, 5 Aug. 2021
• Mendelsohn, a classicist, describes the year his 82-year-old father asked to sit in on his college course on Homer’s Odyssey and the cruise the two men later took to the sites mentioned in the poem.
  — Laura Miller, Slate Magazine, 18 Dec. 2017
• In fact, just last year the first English translation of the story by a female classicist was published.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 11 July 2018
• Constance, on the other hand, was a classicist who liked Cartier, as is evidenced by the four pieces Sotheby's has acquired.
  — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 18 May 2023
• And the papyrologist who worked out its first-century date had to be the world-renowned classicist Dirk Obbink.
  — Ariel Sabar, The Atlantic, 13 May 2020
• Anne Emery sometimes worked that same earnest side of the street, notably in her four-novel account of Dinny Gordon, a budding classicist.
  — Joanne Kaufman, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2018
• But, classicists, take heart: There’s hope for whiskey (with interesting flavor profiles) and even that old standby, the G&T.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2019
• Bianco was born in London in the summer of 1881, the daughter of a barrister who was also a distinguished classicist.
  — Vulture, 8 Nov. 2022
• For Davie and his fellow classicists, the appeal of the classic systems is their simplicity.
  — Noah Shachtman, WIRED, 11 Aug. 2001
• Classicists might prefer Rag & Bone’s gingham halter top with its ’50s feel.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 5 July 2017
• University of Hawaii classicist Robert Littman, who was not involved in the study, urged caution when looking at flood levels.
  — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2017
• The English classicist Bernard Knox, for example, identified three major virtues on display in the work.
  — Joseph Loconte, National Review, 12 Sep. 2021
• What would Plato have made of the classicist who appears destined to be Balliol’s fourth prime minister since 1900?
  — The Economist, 22 June 2019
• Bartsch, a classicist, undertook the considerable challenge of learning Chinese to find out what the Chinese saw in the ancient texts.
  — Shadi Bartsch, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2023
• Law Roach era also suggests a glamour out of time, a woman who survived with a classicist’s commitment to beauty.
  — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Nov. 2022
• For you non-classicists, a bush de noel is a fake log made of chocolate cake rolled up with chocolate mousse frosting and then dotted with meringue mushrooms, which are the high priest of the Christmas cookie hierarchy.
  — Drew Magary, GQ, 19 Dec. 2017
• According to the classicist Jan Bremmer, rituals like this took place throughout the Greco-Roman world.
  — Candida Moss, The Conversation, 23 Mar. 2020
• Morality, and its absence, is the novel’s defining theme: in this sense, Sagan is far more of a classicist than others of her existentialist brethren, such as Sartre and Camus.
  — Rachel Cusk, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2019
• The stylish introduction, by the classicist James Romm, is a joy to read, wearing its considerable learning lightly.
  — A.e. Stallings, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2018
• Wagner proclaimed his to be music of the future, whereas Brahms remained stodgy classicist.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2020
• Peter Brook was called many other things: a maverick, a romantic, a classicist.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2022
• To even the most devoted classicist, however, there are challenges in redefining such a storied space.
  — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 4 Aug. 2022
• Mendelsohn is also a classicist and ancient texts permeate his work.
  — Giancarlo Buonomo, New Republic, 3 Oct. 2017
• The British Museum nominated famed classicist Mary Beard as a trustee of the institution.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2020
• This is the challenge posed by a group of classicists, papyrologists and technical experts: the Vesuvius Challenge, to be precise.
  — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Mar. 2023
• The classicist Daisy Dunn said the finds were even more extravagant than scholars had anticipated.
  — New York Times, 12 Jan. 2021
• Rebounding demand has prompted a steady supply of architects for whom being a classicist is no longer shameful.
  — The Economist, 31 Oct. 2020
• That’s because, as Harvard classicist Gregory Nagy points out, the oral tradition of these poems was not a matter of rote memorization.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 11 July 2018

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024