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- adverb In an
absorptive way.
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Rather than presenting Islamic art as the product of a religiously driven monoculture encompassing centuries and continents, the Met is now - far more realistically - approaching it as a varied, changing, largely secular phenomenon, regionally rooted but absorptively cosmopolitan, affected by the intricacies and confusions of history, including the history that the art itself helped to create.
NYT > Global Home By HOLLAND COTTER 2011
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Rather than presenting Islamic art as the product of a religiously driven monoculture encompassing centuries and continents, the Met is now - far more realistically - approaching it as a varied, changing, largely secular phenomenon, regionally rooted but absorptively cosmopolitan, affected by the intricacies and confusions of history, including the history that the art itself helped to create.
NYT > Home Page By HOLLAND COTTER 2011
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