representational
of or relating to representation.
representing or depicting an object in a recognizable manner: representational art.
Origin of representational
1Other words from representational
- un·rep·re·sen·ta·tion·al, adjective
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How to use representational in a sentence
Of the two teams that produced representational paintings, only one explicitly depicts the newlyweds.
In the galleries: Artists pair up to create a third identity, or when 1+1 equals one. | Mark Jenkins | November 19, 2021 | Washington PostDespite representational gestures, there’s not structural change or a redistribution of money.
‘We are in crisis mode’: Museum workers are turning to unions over conditions they say are untenable | Mark Guarino | November 4, 2021 | Washington PostImbalances like this threaten core values of representational democracy like fairness, inclusion and equality.
Girls Learn Early That They Don’t Have Much Of A Place In Politics | LGBTQ-Editor | October 26, 2021 | No Straight NewsThe cyanotypes and photograms are the closest things to representational works in the show, and they’re deliberately cryptic and detached.
In the galleries: Celebrating the art of the game with unexpected delights | Mark Jenkins | July 2, 2021 | Washington PostThe selection includes abstract works, but most of those seem less urgent than the representational ones.
In the galleries: Middle East artists examine sheltering in place amid pandemic | Mark Jenkins | January 15, 2021 | Washington Post
This is jaw-droppingly strange since perfumes, like paintings and sculpture, are often hyper-representational.
The idea of placing atop this perfect thing a big granite planith surmounted by a representational bronze ... ugh.
Proposed Orwell Statue Faces Orwellian Politics at BBC | David Frum | August 23, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe very fact of depicting at one-to-one carries special representational weight.
In fact, when used correctly (i.e., by the Democrats), the filibuster can help right this representational wrong.
Voit documents a perceptual anomaly and allows it to trick us—or not—without any representational manipulation.
To justify our presence there the only thing demanded of us is that we shall have felt the representational impulse.
Personality in Literature | Rolfe Arnold Scott-JamesStrictly representational it may not be, but there are none of your whorls and cylinders and angles and what nots.
On the functional theory of ideas, their value does not rest at all upon their representational nature.
Studies in Logical Theory | John DeweyHis books are neither documentary nor representational; his characters are symbols of human desires and motives.
Chivalry | James Branch CabellHe wondered what on earth "anti-representational" could mean.
The Regent | E. Arnold Bennett
British Dictionary definitions for representational
/ (ˌrɛprɪzɛnˈteɪʃənəl) /
fine arts depicting or attempting to depict objects, scenes, figures, etc, directly as seen; naturalistic
of or relating to representation
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