Example Sentences

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The Lebrun, a fine example of his Expressionist work, is a muscular semi-abstraction in black, white and brownish-gray.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2023

Coppola tracks the rooster-in-the-henhouse dynamic with her usual sun-dappled semi-abstraction.

From The Guardian • Jul. 10, 2017

The centrepiece of this show is a six-metre-long woodcut in which suggestions of skeletal spooks and masks are entangled within compositions reminiscent of the geometric semi-abstraction of early Miró or Kandinsky.

From The Guardian • Jul. 23, 2010

One of the more prominent sideman posts for Mr. Cardenas has been with the drummer Paul Motian, a master of elasticity and semi-abstraction.

From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2010

An air of semi-abstraction came over the lady.

From The Convert by Robins, Elizabeth