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- adjective Of or relating to William Blake (1757–1827), English
poet andpainter .
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Examples
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Finding a philosophical kinship within Blakean perspectives we are able look at the virtual world anew.
William Blake and the Study of Virtual Space: Adapting 'The Crystal Cabinet' to a New Medium 2005
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This would be a kind of Blakean view of mathematics.
Chaosmic Orders: Nonclassical Physics, Allegory, and the Epistemology of Blake's Minute Particulars. 2001
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Sliding without apparent effort into the baggy matrix of Apatow-ness, where every character — however half-assedly written — is allowed his or her lopsided human value, Brand played a sharp-tongued, oversexed cheeky-monkey rock star with the accent of a Blakean chimney sweep.
Brit Wit 2009
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Sliding without apparent effort into the baggy matrix of Apatow-ness, where every character — however half-assedly written — is allowed his or her lopsided human value, Brand played a sharp-tongued, oversexed cheeky-monkey rock star with the accent of a Blakean chimney sweep.
Brit Wit 2009
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My Gibsonian sneakers have taken me far and wide as I've tried to map Blakean space here in London.
Boing Boing 2009
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Praising Teddy Sheringham a decade ago the former England boss came over all Blakean, observing, "A set of curtains opens in your mind when you are older and you begin to read the game better".
Forget the obsession with youth, football's future is grey and balding | Harry Pearson 2011
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These have an almost Blakean feel to them, and evidence an attempt at what Burke called ‘the sublime’: the conveying of ‘astonishment and terror, or the strongest emotion of which the mind is capable of feeling.’
Review of JMW Turner Retrospective Exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum in New York 2008
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These have an almost Blakean feel to them, and evidence an attempt at what Burke called ‘the sublime’: the conveying of ‘astonishment and terror, or the strongest emotion of which the mind is capable of feeling.’
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It doesn't seem too much of a stretch when you watch Peter Jackson's take on the trilogy with Saruman's transformation of his realm into an almost Blakean "dark satanic mill".
Archive 2008-01-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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These have an almost Blakean feel to them, and evidence an attempt at what Burke called ‘the sublime’: the conveying of ‘astonishment and terror, or the strongest emotion of which the mind is capable of feeling.’
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