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  • adjective Of or pertaining to vorticism.
  • noun An artist who used this style.

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Examples

  • The Kansas cyclone that whisks Dorothy into a dreamworld is evoked through vorticist projections the work of Jon Driscoll that betoken chaos in the cosmos.

    The Wizard of Oz - review 2011

  • For all the easy curmudgeon-rockabilly-krautrock-vorticist shorthand, The Fall's music eludes description.

    FallNews 2001

  • Indeed, the Fall could be seen as a vorticist Blast against the design-professionalism and Mancunian elitism of Anthony H. Wilson's Factory Records.

    FallNet - a pack of gnomes, trolls and gargoyles 1998

  • Strictly speaking, therefore, Descartes was not an atomist but a vorticist and plenist.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas ROBERT H. KARGON 1968

  • He was, as has been said, a vorticist before Descartes, an optimist before Leibnitz, a Copernican before Galileo.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • He was, as has been said, a vorticist before Descartes, an optimist before Leibnitz, a Copernican before Galileo.

    Over the Teacups Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • He was, as has been said, a vorticist before Descartes, [66] an optimist before Leibnitz, a

    A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838

  • The winter sales posters brilliantly harness the dynamic movement of vorticist and futurist art - one image is a blizzard of angled and curved raincoats, sheets of rain and upturned umbrellas.

    Evening Standard - Home Ben Luke 2011

  • The winter sales posters brilliantly harness the dynamic movement of vorticist and futurist art - one image is a blizzard of angled and curved raincoats, sheets of rain and upturned umbrellas.

    Evening Standard - Home Ben Luke 2011

  • The winter sales posters brilliantly harness the dynamic movement of vorticist and futurist art - one image is a blizzard of angled and curved raincoats, sheets of rain and upturned umbrellas.

    Evening Standard - Home Ben Luke 2011

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