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Example sentences for "inartistic"

Lexicographically close words:
inarched; inarching; inarticulate; inarticulately; inartificial; inasmuch; inattention; inattentive; inaudible; inaudibly
  1. I am not concerned with this inartistic theory; inartistic because it would choose the subject for the artist, who alone has the right to select and combine his materials.

  2. But this would be asking him to be some one else--an inartistic request which we must withhold.

  3. Equally baseless is the assumption that it is inartistic and untrue to nature to bring a novel to a definite consummation, and especially to end it happily.

  4. And we ask this not for the sake of the moral lesson, but because not to do it is, to our deep consciousness, inartistic and untrue to our judgment of life as it goes on.

  5. This neglect of printing in a city renowned for the elegance of its manuscripts and the skill of its calligraphers shows that the professional book-makers regarded printing as an inartistic and mechanical method of making books.

  6. The bibliophiles of the time looked on printed books as the productions of an inartistic trade.

  7. But you will tell me this is an inartistic age, and we are an inartistic people, and the artist suffers much in this nineteenth century of ours.

  8. Indeed, to me the most inartistic thing in this age of ours is not the indifference of the public to beautiful things, but the indifference of the artist to the things that are called ugly.

  9. These rude and inartistic verses, which took their name either from the town of Fescennia in Etruria or from the word fascinum[11], were the first expression of that aggressive and censorious spirit which ultimately animated Roman satire.

  10. Lucilius invented satire, by first imparting a definite purpose to an inartistic kind of metrical composition, in which miscellaneous topics had been treated in accordance with the occasional mood or interests of the writer.

  11. The long-continued popularity of Roman tragedy implies also that it was something more than an inartistic copy of the masterpieces of Athenian genius.

  12. Near where I stood was an old chintz-covered couch, and beyond, an arm-chair, of the same inartistic description.

  13. Indeed, the room possessed an air of homely comfort, with an absence of the inartistic seldom found in seaside apartments.

  14. In style and in spirit it is perfect Heywood: simple and noble in emotion and conception, primitive and straightforward in construction and expression; inartistic but not ineffectual; humble and facile, but not futile or prosaic.

  15. We admire the marble statue and we despise as inartistic the colored wax figures.

  16. But if its use is not exaggerated, the method is legitimate, in striking contrast to the inartistic use of the same words as leaders between the pictures.

  17. The melodrama can hardly be played without it, unless a most inartistic use of printed words is made.

  18. More need not be quoted, for the story is always the same--delays caused by intrigues and the whims and caprice of singers, and the indifference of inartistic directors.

  19. I fully agree with Kullak that too strict adherence to the marking of this section produces the effect of an "inartistic precipitation" which robs the movement of clarity.

  20. Consider the simplest and commonest example, the inartistic or half artistic natures whom a monumental history provides with sword and buckler.

  21. Such history would be quite against the analytical and inartistic tendencies of our time, and even be considered false.

  22. Hence a dramatist who attempts to do the whole work of creation before the acting begins is an inartistic usurper of the functions of others, and will fail of proper accomplishment at the end.

  23. Anxious struggles after external likeness in small and inartistic details, like wrinkles, and abnormities such as the curly and frizzled hair of the Antonines, and of L.

  24. These rude and inartistic verses, which took their name either from the town of Fescennia in Etruria or from the word fascinum[18], were the first expression of that aggressive and censorious spirit which ultimately animated Roman satire.

  25. As with all other laces, the introduction of machinery killed the industry as an art, and the only Blonde laces now made are by machine, and are quite inartistic and inelegant.

  26. I can change--in fact, it is the one compensation for all the inartistic demerits of my way of work--I can change as easily as I can talk of changing.

  27. That such halting incoherency would make very slovenly inartistic narratives, I have only to look back on what I have written to see.

  28. Börne, who was not gifted with any profound artistic feeling, or delicate appreciation of style, admired the inartistic in Jean Paul as being unartificial.

  29. Alongside of this perfection, the defects of Heine's lyric effect-style, in its occasional inartistic application, show up only too glaringly.

  30. But when he begins to give his reasons for blame or praise, the inartistic temperament invariably betrays itself, and he frequently displays all the many prejudices of the idealist.

  31. Yet, in spite of the most diligent study of the Dutch masters, he remained, as a colourist, hard and inartistic to the end.

  32. An immense favourite with the inartistic public.

  33. A writer of novels of fashion, inartistic in form, but full of humor.

  34. They are lively, inartistic tales, full of broad fun and drollery.

  35. We had all expected to be blissful in Italy, and so the inartistic and inhuman accessories of life were harder to bear there than elsewhere.

  36. Figures are attempted, with most inartistic results, on silver cases and boxes.

  37. Also, of the carpets for export to Europe and America the same care is not taken in the manufacture as in the ancient carpets, and the bastard design is often shockingly vulgarised to appease the inartistic buyer.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inartistic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.