plastique
Americannoun
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a ballet technique for mastering the art of slow, controlled movement and statuelike posing.
Etymology
Origin of plastique
1795–1805; < French: plastic
Example Sentences
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“Bitcoin has the volatility of hot C4 plastique sitting over an open flame,” says Strategic News Service’s Mark Anderson in his “Future of Bitcoin” report.
From Forbes ● Feb. 11, 2014
Italian Director Gillo Pontecorvo's newsreel-style account of the F.L.N. guerrilla war against the French explodes with the power of a bom be plastique.
From Time Magazine Archive
Italian Director Gillo Pontecorvo has re-created the bitterness and ferocity of those terrible days in a two-hour film that has the impact of a bombe plastique.
From Time Magazine Archive
Italian Director Gillo Pontecorvo's newsreel-style account of the F.L.N. guerrilla war against the French has the brutal impact of a bombe plastique.
From Time Magazine Archive
The painters of old Venice were entirely concerned with l'idee plastique, but on this point the art of Mr. Watts is a repudiation of the art of his masters.
From Modern Painting by Moore, George (George Augustus)
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