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You might see their maker's preoccupation as changing from actual to psychic inscape - a reversal called for, perhaps, by his incarceration in an asylum.

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  1. noun The essential, distinctive, and revelatory quality of a thing: "Here is the inscape, the epiphany, the moment of truth.” (Madison Smartt Bell).

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  • I might add that I have banjaxed my cups server by trying to print from scribus and inscape when tying to help you ... —  PCLinuxOS-Forums
  • The "secret openings" to which HvB refers are of course the vertical springs that dot the landscape for those with activated cʘʘnvision -- you know, the manley inscape hatches which free us from the gaol of life. —  One Cosmos
  • You might see their maker's preoccupation as changing from actual to psychic inscape - a reversal called for, perhaps, by his incarceration in an asylum. —  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • But as air, melody, is what strikes me most of all in music and design in painting, so design, pattern, or what I am in the habit of calling inscape is what I above all aim at in poetry. —  Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published
  • He aimed at complex internal harmonies, at a counterpoint of rhythm; for this more complex element he coined an expressive word of his own But as air, melody, is what strikes me most of all in music and design in painting, so design, pattern, or what I am in the habit of calling inscape is what I above all aim at in poetry Here, then, in so many words, is Hopkins's 'avant toute chose' at a higher level of elaboration. —  Aspects of Literature
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