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Nor was Alcestis improved by the Met's pseudo-Greek staging and top-heavy production featuring, among other banalities, steam puffing from Hades and two clumsy and amateurish ballets.

From Time Magazine Archive

She was a lady rather past her first youth, but very handsome still, who floated about, leaving a general impression of pseudo-Greek draperies, gleaming arms and shoulders, sparkling jewellery, and equally sparkling smiles.

From John Halifax, Gentleman by Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

It returns to the Greek or pseudo-Greek names of the heroic romance, and to its questionable device of histoires stuck like plums in a pudding.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George

It had been so proud of its finery, its pseudo-Greek columns, and its rich furnishings.

From Adventures of a Despatch Rider by Watson, William Henry Lowe

But if his vision is Greek his models are Parisian, while his forms are more Gothic than the pseudo-Greek of the academy.

From Promenades of an Impressionist by Huneker, James