Definitions
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- adjective Of, pertaining to, or in the style of
cubism
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or characteristic of cubism
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Examples
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Look at the vocabulary here: prophylactic, pacific, equanimity, cubistic, demeanour, this is not a man who will use one syllable when three or four would suffice.
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He was giving her a cubistic design he had done of Paris rooftops and chimney pots that she said she loved.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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He was giving her a cubistic design he had done of Paris rooftops and chimney pots that she said she loved.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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We played chess: his daughter watched me from behind her easel, and inserted eyes or knuckles borrowed from me into the cubistic trash that accomplished misses then painted instead of lilacs and lambs.
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The two great heads are set up at the front and the back of the light-filled central space of the new Resnick Pavilion at LACMA, atop brown cubistic concrete platforms designed by Michael Heizer — who knows something about colossal sculpture.
Mysteries Carved in Stone David Littlejohn 2010
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The irrepressible reeds strain to soak up cubistic rays of sunlight.
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This is as lavish as off-Broadway gets, with David Gallo's cubistic set, Mark Dendy's hotblooded choreography and a terrific band led by Stephen Oremus, all marshaled by Barre into a crescendo of debauchery and death.
The Two-Party System 2008
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A lot of that went to Robin Wagner's sets, which manage to be both amusing and beautiful, from his cubistic jumble of Broadway signs to a Deadrock that slowly assembles itself in all its torpor.
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A lot of that went to Robin Wagner's sets, which manage to be both amusing and beautiful, from his cubistic jumble of Broadway signs to a Deadrock that slowly assembles itself in all its torpor.
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The complex, comprised of three identical 30-story, reinforced concrete, buff-colored towers built in the Brutalist style, is centered around the “Bust of Sylvette,” a 36-foot-tall concrete sculpture of an enlarged cubistic piece by Pablo Picasso.
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