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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

Apart from the chroniclers of individual exploits, such as López de Ayala, Brantôme, and the others, they are wholly colourless, and either pseudo-Roman or pseudo-Greek.

From Youth and Egolatry by Fassett, Jacob S. (Jacob Sloat)

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

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