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Example sentences for "naturalistic"

Lexicographically close words:
naturalised; naturalising; naturalism; naturalist; naturalistes; naturalists; naturaliter; naturalium; naturalization; naturalize
  1. Villemessant, felt himself obliged to give the naturalist critic an anti-naturalistic colleague in the person of M.

  2. The old genre painting remodelled in a naturalistic sense by George Mason and Frederick Walker.

  3. His designs are always based upon naturalistic motives--the English type of womanhood and the English splendour of flowers.

  4. Up to this point, therefore, it is a naturalistic picture from the modern East.

  5. All naturalistic effects are avoided, all petty detail is left out in the flow of the drapery as well as in the structure of the landscape.

  6. In its early stages its special marks are combinations of curves, with peculiar central thickenings which give a quasi-naturalistic effect; a skilful use of inlaid enamels, and the chased line.

  7. Its rudest and most naturalistic forms occur in the East in uncouth objects from Siberian tombs, whose lineage however has been traced to Persepolis, Assyria and Egypt.

  8. It seemed, however, as if there was one fatal exception to the scheme of naturalistic optimism.

  9. Accordingly two contrasted conceptions of life have appeared--a naturalistic and an idealistic.

  10. The conventional treatment of the Memmis and Fra Angelicos was followed by the naturalistic representation of the Raphaels, the Da Vincis, and the Titians.

  11. Music did not advance so far among the ancients that they were able to escape from this naturalistic conception.

  12. The convulsions of the possessed were undoubtedly genuine, and undoubtedly they manifested phenomena seemingly inexplicable on any naturalistic basis.

  13. Hodgson nevertheless deemed the evidence presented to him too strong to be explained away on naturalistic grounds.

  14. Cannot such men appreciate, and cannot all others who do as they do also appreciate the fact that naturalistic explanation of [p.

  15. While there should be no deliberate perversion of Nature's forms, there should be no naturalistic imitation.

  16. On the other hand, his ethics more naturally allies itself with a different theory, in which the moral law is conceived as having its source in practical reason, and the naturalistic basis of ethics is definitely abandoned.

  17. The former may be called the Naturalistic, the latter the Rationalistic view of man: from that follows a Naturalistic or Natural ethics, from this a Rationalistic or Rational ethics.

  18. On the one side the basis of the theory has been laid by Bentham and Mill in a naturalistic psychology which looks upon pleasure as the only object of desire.

  19. These either formed the starting-point for the lighter ornaments, or were associated with naturalistic swags and festoons of fruit and flowers, masks, ribbons, etc.

  20. In some, purely Chinese motifs are employed; in others, a semi-naturalistic arrangement of flowers and festoons is associated with the Martin type of decoration on the guards and lower semicircle of the fan.

  21. The handle is formed of four cylinders of white bone, two being ornamented with semi-naturalistic vine foliage running spirally round the stem, the two lower fluted.

  22. The Yamato-Tosa school, though the direct outcome of the study of Chinese methods, was essentially Japanese and naturalistic in character, and was founded by Kasuga Motomitsu in the latter part of the tenth century.

  23. Likewise the modern naturalistic movement may be followed in the writings of Rousseau, Pestalozzi, Herbart, and Froebel.

  24. It is unfortunate to defer such study to a stage when the student's natural aptitude for observation and inference has become dulled by neglect or by confinement to subjects devoid of naturalistic stimulus.

  25. The relief tells us far more about the battle than would a naturalistic representation of one corner of the field.

  26. That a nation of such a sort as always to hate and generally to murder them should have had them in long succession, throughout its history, is surely inexplicable on any naturalistic hypothesis.

  27. The naturalistic novel is the essence of a phase of life that the writer has lived in and assimilated.

  28. A man may write twenty volumes of poetry, history, and philosophy, but a man will never be born who will write more than two, at the most three, naturalistic novels.

  29. There is nothing that will not increase out of all reckoning except the naturalistic novel.

  30. Nor must it be forgotten that Philo was preaching spiritual monotheism not only to Jews, but also to the Hellenic world, for whom it was a vast bound from their naturalistic polytheism.

  31. While, however, I willingly make a present of this passage to the naturalistic interpreters, I do not accept their interpretation.

  32. The mention of such a belief brings me to the consideration of another and very different form of what I may call the naturalistic school of interpretation.

  33. This latter line of development is in the direction of naturalistic and spiritualistic metaphysics, which possess a deeper significance than a system of mathematical enumeration and logical generalization.

  34. No one," as Senor Valdes truly says, "can rise from the perusal of a naturalistic book .

  35. This tendency is apparent even in some of the geometric designs, which are so disposed as to form an approach to naturalistic patterns.

  36. Of the later pottery of Knossos, which substituted naturalistic motives, executed in monochrome, for the conventional polychrome designs of the Kamares period, many specimens were also found during the excavations of this season.

  37. In some vessels of the period there is a combination of conventionalized naturalistic ornament and geometric design.

  38. In pottery the naturalistic style still persists, but the technique begins to modify, and the white design on a dark ground occurs less frequently than design in dark glaze paint on the natural light ground of the clay.

  39. Mackenzie, 'in its naturalistic character is so advanced that, were it not for the company in which the fragments occur, we should be tempted to assign it to a much later age.

  40. He had given up historical and poetic painting for naturalistic landscape, and had returned from the East with the most valuable studies completed, only to break down and die prematurely.

  41. The Pre-Raphaelites and naturalistic landscapists no longer needed the hand which "Modern Painters" had held out to them by the way.

  42. Harding; and the famous study of ivy, his first naturalistic sketching, to which we must revert, must have been done a week or two before going up for his examination.

  43. Nothing is more distressing than the sight of a large oil-painting in a ponderous frame seemingly suspended from a spray of wild roses or any of the other naturalistic vegetation of the modern wall-paper.

  44. He who sees the truth in the idealistic aspect of man will not necessarily evade the curious question of the child who is puzzled about the naturalistic processes around him.

  45. He will point to those hidden naturalistic realities as something not overimportant, but as something which a clean boy and girl do not ask about and with which only the imagination of bad companions is engaged.

  46. Her novels, like much of the poetry of the same period, are eclectic in spirit, combining with the naturalistic methods those of the historic, socialistic, culture and speculative schools.

  47. In another direction she kept along the way followed by many of her co-workers, and brought philosophy and socialistic speculation to the aid of the naturalistic method.


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    Other words:
    authentic; candid; characteristic; descriptive; distinctive; distinguishing; eclectic; empirical; exemplary; existential; expressive; faithful; general; genuine; good; graphic; hedonistic; honest; idealistic; inartificial; instrumentalist; lawful; legitimate; lifelike; literal; materialistic; mechanistic; metaphysical; natural; naturalistic; normal; orderly; original; pantheistic; positivistic; pragmatical; pure; quintessential; rationalistic; real; realist; realistic; regular; representative; rightful; sample; scholastic; simple; sincere; sterling; theistic; transcendentalist; typical; unadulterated; unaffected; unassuming; uncolored; undisguised; undistorted; unexaggerated; unflattering; unimagined; unqualified; unromantic; unvarnished; usual; utilitarian; verbal; verbatim; vivid