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- adjective Of or pertaining to
vorticism . - noun An
artist who used this style.
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Examples
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The Kansas cyclone that whisks Dorothy into a dreamworld is evoked through vorticist projections the work of Jon Driscoll that betoken chaos in the cosmos.
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For all the easy curmudgeon-rockabilly-krautrock-vorticist shorthand, The Fall's music eludes description.
FallNews 2001
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Indeed, the Fall could be seen as a vorticist Blast against the design-professionalism and Mancunian elitism of Anthony H. Wilson's Factory Records.
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Strictly speaking, therefore, Descartes was not an atomist but a vorticist and plenist.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas ROBERT H. KARGON 1968
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He was, as has been said, a vorticist before Descartes, an optimist before Leibnitz, a Copernican before Galileo.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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He was, as has been said, a vorticist before Descartes, an optimist before Leibnitz, a Copernican before Galileo.
Over the Teacups Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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He was, as has been said, a vorticist before Descartes, [66] an optimist before Leibnitz, a
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838
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The winter sales posters brilliantly harness the dynamic movement of vorticist and futurist art - one image is a blizzard of angled and curved raincoats, sheets of rain and upturned umbrellas.
Evening Standard - Home Ben Luke 2011
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The winter sales posters brilliantly harness the dynamic movement of vorticist and futurist art - one image is a blizzard of angled and curved raincoats, sheets of rain and upturned umbrellas.
Evening Standard - Home Ben Luke 2011
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The winter sales posters brilliantly harness the dynamic movement of vorticist and futurist art - one image is a blizzard of angled and curved raincoats, sheets of rain and upturned umbrellas.
Evening Standard - Home Ben Luke 2011
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