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The artist-turned-filmmaker even incorporates a striking image from one of his oils — that of a translucent horselike creature — as an enigmatic visual motif that proves more ponderous than poetic.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2025

The students — at first timid around the carcass — began to move closer, petting the moose and examining its ears, its long gray tongue and its horselike face.

From New York Times • Jan. 10, 2022

“Reply All,” Alex Goldman and P. J. Vogt’s long-running Gimlet podcast about the Internet, is reliably excellent at explicating our interconnected world, and punctuated by the hosts’ razzing rapport and Vogt’s charmingly horselike laugh.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 21, 2019

“Hippocampi” are the horselike sea monsters that drove Neptune’s chariot in ancient myth; “Tianhe” comes from the ancient Chinese name for the Milky Way.

From Washington Post • Feb. 26, 2019

Uncle Vernon’s large red face was hidden behind the morning’s Daily Mail, and Aunt Petunia was cutting a grapefruit into quarters, her lips pursed over her horselike teeth.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling