| Their work is interesting and esoteric and ideologically exclusionary, although we seem to be in a time of revision and eclecticism. |
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| At a time when specialization and depth take precedence over exploration, Sontag's eclecticism is something we need more of. |
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| However, his laid-back, sonically adventurous garage bears the eclecticism of a year travelling round Australia with only a sampler for company. |
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| Such eclecticism is a mark of the liveliness of culture in the British Isles. |
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| He is the personification of eclecticism which results in a frustratingly mixed qualitative output. |
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| But today they highlight Charles' sheer musical eclecticism, and vitally counterpoint his earlier earthier style. |
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| Such eclecticism could have resulted in visual mayhem in less experienced curatorial hands. |
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| This disc has little of the wildly inventive eclecticism of his solo production efforts or DJ sets, but it's a divertingly quirky stop-gap. |
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| Besides, eclecticism comes naturally to the singer, who hails from a musical household. |
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| Early Victorian taste favoured opulence and eclecticism, so exhibition showpieces coexisted with simpler, compact items like Windsor chairs. |
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| Once you start to apply this guiding principle, then a lot of Peel's seemingly baffling eclecticism begins to add up and make sense. |
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| These buildings at the Bund represent a variety of Western architectural styles including classicism, eclecticism and modernism. |
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| This eclecticism has often been confused with tokenism, but it speaks to the growing cultural fluidity of the postmodern times in which we live. |
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| The very eclecticism of eastern Etsako masks evokes an Igbo rather than an Edo model. |
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| With such diverse instrumentation and determined eclecticism, the band is often categorized by music fans who are unforgiving in their rigidity. |
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| These tracks are produced with eclecticism and style, but through it all is the limp sameness of Merchant's voice. |
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| Mr. Schuller's main influence on him is his eclecticism, his sense of genres and styles as collapsible and combinable. |
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| The style he developed was a thoroughly indigenous fusion of the traditions of Europe with Trinidad's folk art, coloured always by his own eclecticism. |
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| A beautiful antique mantel characteristic of the eclecticism that dominated furniture and objet d'art designs in the 19th century. |
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| An eclecticism and cultural wealth that this album gets to grips without any hint of digression. |
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| On the other hand, their very eclecticism and amorphousness, which seems to have served them until now, may well be, in the end, a strength. |
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| Everyone in the band has very different tastes and we've tried to cultivate this kind of eclecticism. |
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| Once again Marina and The Diamonds amazing us with his eclecticism, pushed even further by the remix of Grum. |
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| Cultural integration and eclecticism are trademarks of her original and versatile style. |
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| If there is one thing I will always fight for on this website it is the diversity, the richness and the eclecticism of the electronic music. |
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| The LOSC led to new approaches to fisheries management, this time characterized by eclecticism. |
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| Its bold dimensions, a symbol of this independence and eclecticism, firmly anchor the new C1 in this new century. |
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| To reinforce the eclecticism of the programme and reach new publics, the Grand Palais will host large-scale one-off events. |
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| Her discography includes about twenty titles showing the eclecticism of her reper-toire. |
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| Three factors have led many observers to assign meaning to this apparent eclecticism. |
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| Testifying to an eclecticism fully in line with the spirit of the times, the creations on show cater for the full range of budgets and tastes. |
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| Napoleon III period and style mantel emblematic of the eclecticism in styles of the period. |
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| Our reviewer Michael Caines asks if the eclecticism adds up to an adventure. |
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| He was the human sampling machine, selling millions of records and drawing degree-level analysis from critics impressed by his magpie eclecticism and arch intelligence. |
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| But his eclecticism has seemed a weakness, a tendency perhaps to adapt to stronger personalities, including some of his leading performers, and various social milieus. |
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| Like fellow Beat Jedi Madlib, Spinna adhered to a jazz-based aesthetic but was willing to dig into other genre's for a pasticcio rewarding in its eclecticism. |
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| There are more Taoists, Buddhists, mixtures of both and eclecticism. |
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| Renaud Garcia-Fons also has a certain reputation for eclecticism, boldly crossing the boundaries between genres, folding Indian, classical and Persian music, or even tango and flamenco rhythms into his jazz. |
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| This tendency is clearly a second way to avoid the arbitrariness and posthockery of eclecticism. |
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| The word eclecticism has been used so much for the last 30 years that it has become meaningless — a sad, grasping pile of obstruents and sibilants, like a dying fire's last pops and hisses. |
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| I was the Guardian's design correspondent in the mid-1960s so I had a ringside seat as the primness of Design Centre selectiveness gave way to eclecticism, jollity, pastiche. |
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| First, one may observe a cultural eclecticism that is often assumed uncritically: cultures are simply placed alongside one another and viewed as substantially equivalent and interchangeable. |
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| One such evangelical theologian, Helmut Franz, has categorized all theological uses of Heidegger as either eclecticism or glossism. |
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| Mixing the eclecticism of Feist, Regina Spektor and Lily Allen, she still manages to keep her own unique voice. |
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| Prog is based on fusions of styles, approaches and genres, involving a continuous move between formalism and eclecticism. |
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| It is also famous for the eclecticism of its entrance façade, the woodcarving of its door, and the perfect balance of its axial symmetric four-iwan plan. |
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| That's why eclecticism and open-mindedness are important qualities for candidates who already meet basic criteria such as an impeccable sense of rhythm, a precise musical vocabulary and the ability to memorize scores. |
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| Garnier's eclecticism might well lose a few of his less committed fans en route, bewildered as these fans will inevitably be at his distancing himself from the dancefloor and experimenting with post-techno sounds. |
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| After preferences The fear in Little Managua A fly in the ointment First come, first served The Versace controversy ReprintsVersace revelled in eclecticism, and this was especially American. |
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| His eclecticism helped to reconcile the differences between conflicting movements by romanticizing the realistic and fleshing out the idealistic with solid structures. |
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| But one of the key features of Art Deco is eclecticism, so it is no surprise to occasionally find the curvilinear, streamline style used in combination with the earlier angular look. |
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| He has been influential on all of those instruments, but his chief legacy to younger jazz musicians might actually be his many-sidedness, the impulse that sometimes gets tagged as eclecticism. |
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| Since 1977 the love of art, the eclecticism of artistic expression through glass, the pre-eminence of the artist, of man and the craftsman has been at the centre of all art theory in this gallery. |
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| He called for a return to eclecticism, variety and ornament. |
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| Critics have stressed the eclecticism and stylistic diversity of rock. |
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| Eclecticism and homeopathy both relied on precise methods of regulating what is called the vital force. |
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| Eclecticism for Newman was primarily syncretistic, combining elements of Greek philosophy and other schools. |
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| During the 19th century, the Breton architecture was mainly characterised by the Gothic Revival and Eclecticism. |
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