Example sentences for: eclecticism

How can you use “eclecticism” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The array of electronic styles pioneered or embraced in the United Kingdom-- techno , acid house , jungle , ambient house , trip-hop , and so on--features insistent beats and wide-ranging eclecticism.

  • Just published and already a best seller, The Perfect Storm is said to be "thrilling--a boat ride into and (for us) out of a watery hell" (Anthony Bailey, the New York Times Book Review ). Reviews cite the book's eclecticism: It combines a lucid explanation of the storm's complex meteorology, gritty descriptions of sailor bars and, most compellingly, a reconstruction of the ship's final minutes.

  • Can we say that Janis Joplin's and Jimi Hendrix's romantic thrift-store eclecticism created the late hippie look, or emerged out of it?

  • The collection "exhibits the kind of imaginative eclecticism that characterizes writers of the first order" (Kevin Driscoll, the Washington Times ). (Read selections from Opened Ground at the New York Times Web site.)

  • Sacks' eclecticism doesn't bother Slate's Luc Sante, though: "This oddness is a measure of the personality that unifies it."


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