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Most Frenchmen never heard of these symbolistic efforts and most of those who did thought them as tortuous and intangible as Leger's diplomacy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Munch developed his spare "symbolistic" style about 1892.

From Time Magazine Archive

Banneker made the world-wide symbolistic finger-shuffle of money-handling.

From Success A Novel by Adams, Samuel Hopkins

Fables are stories; most of them are animal-stories; they are symbolistic or figurative or allegorical—so that one must approach them from many points of view, and take them into consideration in many connections.

From Literature in the Elementary School by MacClintock, Porter Lander

The volumes which follow are in vers libres, and they are, to a certain extent, symbolistic.

From Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell by Various