Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to iconography; representing or describing by means of pictures or diagrams.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to iconography.
- adjective Representing by means of pictures or diagrams.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a religious
icon . - adjective Of or pertaining to a secular person or topic that has attained cult status.
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Examples
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This is also how we distinguish one liturgical artistic tradition from another, for example, the iconographic from the baroque.
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None of the casting is what one would call iconographic, the acting teeters between the overly stoic and the overly melodramatic, the romantic leads have no chemistry, the musical score is sometimes risibly barnstorming, and the film neither sustains its initial delicacy or fulfills its own ambitions as it races toward its flaming room finale.
Archive 2006-08-27 2006
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None of the casting is what one would call iconographic, the acting teeters between the overly stoic and the overly melodramatic, the romantic leads have no chemistry, the musical score is sometimes risibly barnstorming, and the film neither sustains its initial delicacy or fulfills its own ambitions as it races toward its flaming room finale.
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And, Franklin was keenly aware of this and he promoted these kinds of what you might call iconographic views of himself in many different forms, encouraged them, and it ends with this very great portrait by Duplessis in 1778 which I have in color in the inset there, which is the last portrait of him and which he understood correctly was the most profound visualization of him that could be made.
To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders 2003
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Thought balloons are iconographic, which is why they can be used so wonderfully in the examples I’ve shared here.
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Thought balloons are iconographic, which is why they can be used so wonderfully in the examples I’ve shared here.
Hereville — Some words (and pictures) in defense of thought balloons 2010
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"iconographic" because that word is closer to its meaning of a transparency into the transcendent or sublime that Ruskin the art critic argued the careful reader would discover in the best texts after meditative, "slow mining."
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Howard Hibbard brought homosexuality and psychoanalysis to the fore, while still making valuable formal and iconographic insights.
The Misery Memoirist James Hall 2011
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How we conserve large carnivores - and in particular wolves, which have been such an iconographic species for so long - may bode to the future of how we are able to coexist with other sentient beings with whom we share this earth - and ultimately with each other.
Chris Genovali: The Death Cults Among Us Chris Genovali 2010
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It also repeats several iconographic elements from "House," among them the brick building front on the lower left now in green and yellow, instead of red, the orange house facade and the right-hand side's black smokestack.
A Painting That Pulses With a Jazz Feeling Judith H. Dobrzynski 2011
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