representational
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Like his poetry, Ashbery’s collection occupies a place at the intersection of representational and abstract, realistic and dream-like, crisp and gestural.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Certainly, this representational role is a dimension of the presidency with which he has seemed at ease.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2024
This is where making the series about Muslim women rockers accomplishes more than representational box-ticking: It makes an old story new and nuanced.
From New York Times ● May 29, 2024
By introducing an actor with a disorder in a movie starring an actor feigning that disorder, is Schimberg’s movie trying to court or preempt its own representational criticism?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2024
“You’re not going to go into the merits of representational currency, are you?”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
Vocabulary lists containing representational
Visual Arts - Introductory
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