Electicism

the discussion or "Electicism" in Dorf, supra note 250 at 1787-96.

Like Shah Waliullah al-Udvi appears to be inclined to 'jurisprudential electicism' (choosing among different schools of Jurisprudence for legal interpretations, as opposed to taqlid to any one school) as Barbara Metcalf puts it.

He demonstrates an exceptional electicism and a big diversity, as also evidenced by his female figurative compositions, "female cenacles" which, while paying tribute to Giotto and Piero della Francesca by their silent and hieratic figures and clear geometric forms, however, are impregnated with such a modernism that corrodes traditional iconography.

I would have thought Canada, with its electicism and flexibility, to be the one country capable of leading such an evolving global mosaic.

Starr also suggests that Ives's electicism was a consolation and inspiration to Copland, who may not have combined disparate elements in individual works but had his own wide expressive range from accessible to modernist.

Travel and appreciation of other cultures is so much a part of our experience today that electicism is a style that comes into its own.

Eldersveld has explained three key characteristics of the American two-party system: capacity for absorption of protest, ideological electicism, and coalition flexibility.(5) All of these characteristics especially pertain to the three qualities of the Democratic party's organizational culture that political scientist Philip Klinkner has identified and explained: democracy, representation, and inclusion.(6)

What makes them different from the works of other postmodernists is Elkins's electicism. You can tell it right from the top by reading the titles of his works: The patrooka Variations (1988), Danforth & Multiply (The Rituals of Democracy) (1990), Where Was Yvonne Rainier When I Had Saturday Night Fever?

He goes on to identify electicism and pragmatism as the main hallmarks of the volume.