(a.) Selecting; choosing (what is true or excellent in doctrines, opinions, etc.) from various sources or systems; as, an eclectic philosopher.
(a.) Consisting, or made up, of what is chosen or selected; as, an eclectic method; an eclectic magazine.
(n.) One who follows an eclectic method.
Example Sentences:
(1) The author uses an eclectic theoretical frame of reference which includes some elements of psychodynamic, object relations, and structural and strategic family therapy theory.
(2) More recently, Echinacea angustifolia - a wildflower native to North America and related to the daisy - was studied in depth by the Eclectics, a group of American medical herbalists practising from the 1850s to the 1930s.
(3) His eclectic approach to songwriting means he may not produce music that is typically Bahian or even Brazilian, but alongside the likes of Argentina's Juana Molina and Colombia's Bomba Estereo , he's redefining 21st-century Latin music.
(4) A successful PACS (Picture Archiving and Communications System) implementation requires an eclectic integration of a number of key technologies.
(5) The strategy is based on an eclectic conceptual framework and reflects the progressional nature of the attachment process.
(6) His best collaborators and students, such as Joyce Molyneux, late of the Carved Angel in Dartmouth, and Stephen Markwick, also late of Markwick's in Bristol, first reproduced his style, then refreshed it with their own imaginations, and the eclectic style of cooking associated with the 1980s.
(7) Lisa and Brian converted the old wooden schoolhouse six years ago and the design is bright and eclectic, think retro school desks, a funky red kitchen, a clear geodesic dome in the garden for stargazing and chill-out time and a giant chess set on the lawn.
(8) It captures the fact that the eclectic and inventive Adams - who cut his compositional teeth as a member of the minimalist school in the 1970s and 1980s, and then moved on into less strict forms of tonal music - is almost certainly America's most widely performed contemporary composer.
(9) They found two clusters of prospective child psychiatrists: one psychoanalytically oriented and the other eclectically oriented.
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(11) We have gone from an eclectic program to a systematic behavior modification program.
(12) Curative treatment is essentially symptom oriented, while the prevention of such complications demands, in addition to close supervision of patients under this medication, particularly strict eclectism in the selection of indications for its administration.
(13) Diana Nagy, a singer from San Francisco, shouted to an eclectic audience of bikers, veterans, pensioners and others.
(14) It was led by an SNP member but, contrary to expectations, the other volunteers were an eclectic mix: a Green, two Labour supporters and a former Liberal Democrat.
(15) After a cross-comparison arguments are given why there is still a need for a more problem- and patient-oriented, eclectic and limited psychotherapy.
(16) An eclectic set of concepts form the third construct in the framework presented here.
(17) Joe’s Garage , a tiny eclectic record and bookshop on Westbourne Road, is a place to meet random characters and to flip through vinyls.
(18) From a sapphire and diamond brooch to a humble bag of salt, the Queen picked up an eclectic haul of official gifts during the year she became Britain’s longest-reigning monarch.
(19) I don’t want a peerage, and I don’t want a job in government.” Davis calls himself an “eclectic” politician.
(20) The third independent variable was psychologists' theoretical orientation (psychodynamic, behavioral, or eclectic).
Staid
Definition:
(a.) Sober; grave; steady; sedate; composed; regular; not wild, volatile, or fanciful.
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Example Sentences:
(1) The trial, originally expected to be staid, has exposed severe dysfunction within Bo's family and detailed the complicated tangle of allegiances and affairs that led to his downfall .
(2) The established format sounds a bit staid until Balding starts discussing it.
(3) Recent politically sensitive cases have been staid and straightforward affairs – last month, former railways minister Liu Zhijun was handed a suspended death sentence for bribery after just three and a half hours in the dock.
(4) That first book, The Path to Power , was greeted as a revelation not only for its insights into the true nature of Johnson but for its transformation of the staid form of political biography.
(5) According to the NetEase report, the rules do not apply to CCTV1, although that may be because its output is already more staid than that of its rivals.
(6) Steve Crawshaw, who turned Bradford and Bingley from a staid building society into a specialist in self-certified mortgages and left the company weeks before it had to be nationalised, has apparently retired to the Yorkshire countryside: his only publicly-recorded activity these days is as the chair of the advisory board of the School of Management at Bradford University, who forwarded him my list of questions, but I heard nothing back.
(7) I'd seen younger, more erratic and more hyped bands (Young Bloods, Fat White Family) earlier in the day and expected something more staid and predictable.
(8) Ryley said: "Whatever you think of Fox News, there is no denying that it has shaken up the sometimes staid world of US TV news by using commentators like Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity alongside its core news output."
(9) Why had investment bankers been allowed to over-run a supposedly staid Scottish bank?
(10) Even the usually staid weekly, Die Zeit, headlines its main Greek crisis story with the headline: "Are the Greeks Potty?"
(11) The prostaglandin-E2-concentrations in the treated pregnant animals decreased by half during the first hour of the experiment, whereas they staid fairly constant in the untreated group of animals.
(12) As well as being the first black minister, Gething is seen as part of a new generation of younger politicians who will regenerate the Welsh assembly, which is sometimes criticised for being staid and lacking dynamism.
(13) She points to a pirate outfit in the exhibition worn by Adam Ant (another snake-hips) and links it deftly to the piecrust collar worn by Lady Diana Spencer when she first came to public notice as a sweet and rather staid nursery teacher in 1980.
(14) A Shanghai newspaper learned of her groundbreaking research and "called for an end to the madness" in an editorial comment subsequently republished by the People's Daily – in what would have been an astonishing move for the staid official Communist party newspaper.
(15) These tools are also being used to replace staid development paradigms, by organising and developing African-driven institutions.
(16) But that's not the only problem at the company: sudden reorganizations and changing strategies favored hot copycat products and left its staid legacy businesses orphaned.That, in turn, left Microsoft marooned between a fading past and an uncertain future.
(17) As if to underline the idea that politics in Wales defies the staid norms of Westminster, both front-runners in the Plaid leadership contest are women.
(18) The move was designed to transform its image from staid telecoms company into a 21st-century multimedia business.
(19) Bannon was casual with open-collared shirt, Priebus more staid in suit and tie.
(20) Staid courtyards winced to the sounds of Beggars Banquet, The White Album, Big Pink and Dr John The Night Tripper drifting through leaded windows.