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eclecticism

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n. (名詞 noun)

          1.    折衷派;折衷說

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1. the use or advocacy of an eclectic method.  

2. a tendency in architecture and the decorative arts to mix various historical styles with modern elements with the aim of combining the virtues of many styles or increasing allusive content.


eclectic

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–adjective 
1. selecting or choosing from various sources. 

2. made up of what is selected from different sources.
3. not following any one system, as of philosophy, medicine, etc., but selecting and using what are considered the best elements of all systems. 

4. noting or pertaining to works of architecture, decoration, landscaping, etc., produced by a certain person or during a certain period, that derive from a wide range of historic styles, the style in each instance often being chosen for its fancied appropriateness to local tradition, local geography, the purpose to be served, or the cultural background of the client. 

–noun 
5. Also, eclecticist. a person who follows an eclectic method, as in philosophy or architecture. 


 　
With each album he released, Prince has shown remarkable stylistic growth and musical diversity, constantly experimenting with different sounds, textures, and genres. 

Occasionally, his music can be maddeningly inconsistent because of this eclecticism, but his experiments frequently succeed; no other contemporary artist can blend so many diverse styles into a cohesive whole.


 　
Actor Johnny Depp convincingly portrays a greedy rare-book dealer and the director ably captures the film's eclectic European [settings]

however, The Ninth Gate fails to deliver much in the way of genuine chills, relying instead on atmosphere and implied violence to convey the sense of menace that his script doesn't deliver.


sophism
solipsism
Gallo has limited himself to the most proudly [solipsistic] subjects.
And that anguished [solipsism] seems to be, at least in part, the movie's subject. 
"Kicking and Screaming" [strikes] a cheerfully solipsistic note. Chris Eigeman, the handsome young [curmudgeon],
discursive
agnostic
Finch, as an intellient, attractive [agnostic], [conveys] a romantic attachment for Hepburn

megillah  
Just give me the facts, not a [whole] megillah.  
which serve to remind us how typically commercial the [whole] megillah is. 
rubric
Seven of these have appeared under the magazine’s [rubric] "Shouts and Murmurs,"
interpolation
Act Three, Scene Five of "Macbeth" is an interpolation, an [addition] to the Shakespeare play from another script.
putative
As vivid and suspenseful as Roman Polanski has made this claustrophobic tale of a torture victim turning the tables on her [putative] tormentor
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