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Example sentences for "public taste"

  • Garrick's enthusiasm for the poet and his histrionic genius riveted Shakespeare's hold on public taste.

  • Much is certainly due to the stage itself, when those appeared, who could guide and control the public taste, and discover that in the poet himself which sluggish imaginations could not have reached.

  • Even that of Malherbe was too elevated for the public taste; none at least imitated that writer, though the critics had set the example of admiring him.

  • There is sometimes a want of congeniality in public taste which no power of genius will overcome.

  • We regard her as belonging to a higher school of art, as more nearly affined to the great immortal few whose genius and fame transcend the fashion of the age and defy the caprice of public taste.

  • This can only be ascribed to the polish of chivalrous manners, and to the influence of feminine delicacy on public taste.

  • And when we think what sort of art this vast sum of money went to support, we cease to wonder at the decline of public taste.

  • This is the West-End dealer: he throws himself into an arm-chair, and if there is nothing on the easels that appeals to the uneducated eye, the dealer lectures the artist on his folly in not considering the exigencies of public taste.

  • On public taste--that is to say, on the uneducated eye--the dealer is a very fine authority.

  • Consider, too, the lamentable loss of time which people of high culture incur in making experiments on public taste, when money becomes one of their main objects.

  • One must seek for the cause of this in the vitiated state of public taste.

  • We owe something, however, to the demands of public taste.

  • The magazines have long recognized this phase of public taste.

  • A development of public taste that is in line with this argument is the passing of the large-paper edition.

  • Public taste is probably as advanced in the appreciation of the book beautiful as of any other branch of art, but it is active rather than enlightened.

  • In the third place, one must allow something for an improvement in public taste.

  • The Savoy was one of the first to take full advantage of the new direction of public taste.

  • Politicians, keen to observe the tendency of public taste, sometimes attempt to run with it, and then accept the honour of having created it.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    free agent; honest face; physical evil; public assembly; public authority; public credit; public debt; public documents; public house; public improvements; public lands; public liberty; public performance; public proclamation; public property; public questions; public road; public school; public servants; public service; public square; public trust; public utility; public view; publication office; single piece