expressionist
Americanadjective
noun
Example Sentences
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From Fritz Lang’s German Expressionist “Metropolis” to “Wall Street” in the 1980s and 2011’s “Horrible Bosses,” offices, factories and other worksites have often been the setting—indeed, a main character—in the movie canon.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 29, 2025
The staging of the former’s broomstick flights is “Top Gun” for tween girls, and her castle in the sky is a strangely scary redoubt somewhere between Tim Burton and a German Expressionist film.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025
A significant portion of the Kallir gift is composed of works on paper, which will be housed at LACMA’s Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies under the care of curator Timothy O. Benson.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2025
In a statement, the Art Institute said it had good title to the work by Schiele, an Austrian Expressionist, and would fight the district attorney’s attempt to seize it.
From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2024
One porter is discovered leaning against an automatic sweet machine designed by an Expressionist sculptor.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-14 by Various
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