Usage examples for eclecticism
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It constitutes a work of laborious but of average ability, and descends to a lower technical state of imaginative eclecticism and expression than I had indeed expected to encounter in so lavishly- applauded a work. – Original Letters and Biographic Epitomes by J. Atwood.Slater
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But his looseness of thought, wayward eclecticism of system, and want of accurate learning, were not remedied by Kingsley's splendid pictorial faculty, his creative imagination, or his brilliant style. – A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by George Saintsbury
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There we have the typical Greek attitude, the genial, cultivated eclecticism that appreciated the fitness of even the most alien forms of art. – The Eye of Osiris by R. Austin Freeman