| He kept the school a bastion of Germanic academicism while the musical mainstream went elsewhere. |
| There is also a sense of joy and sheer pleasure in composing and in sound worlds which comes across, no sterile academicism. |
| This was a new departure in the world of French-language African literature, which had hitherto tended towards academicism. |
| Each image is an exercise in Baroque extravagance mingled with 19th-century Russian academicism. |
| The dual attraction of the Manchu rulers to unbridled decoration and to orthodox academicism characterized their patronage at court. |
| For the following two centuries, academicism dominated Italian artistic life. |
