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- adjective Of or pertaining to Jackson Pollock (1912-1956),
American abstract expressionist painter .
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Examples
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Now I did wonder, as I neared the end of this textual slab of stasis, whether Jordan slips at the last hurdle and permits narrative movement, development and interest to contaminate the pure, Pollockian tangled obstruction of the whole.
Archive 2010-05-01 Adam Roberts 2010
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Now I did wonder, as I neared the end of this textual slab of stasis, whether Jordan slips at the last hurdle and permits narrative movement, development and interest to contaminate the pure, Pollockian tangled obstruction of the whole.
Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time 9: Winter’s Heart (2000) Adam Roberts 2010
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Except for the door and soundproof window, the entire studio is lined in acoustic tile with strange Pollockian patterns of tiny holes.
Host 2005
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Except for the door and soundproof window, the entire studio is lined in acoustic tile with strange Pollockian patterns of tiny holes.
Host 2005
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I can hardly recall a meal which was not smothered in sauces red and brown, or an explosion of Pollockian pickles.
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while pizza stones heat to 500+ degrees, a “Pollockian”-splattered pie
Pancetta, Egg and Fried Sage Pizza (at Pizza a Casa with Mark Bello) 2009
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