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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The theory or practice of kinetic art.
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- noun
Kinetic art - noun Energetic
movement , particularly applied to any visual arts
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Examples
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And even dynamic kineticism need not be antithetical to something deeper.
Speaking Of Maturity SVGL 2009
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The too-few scenes in which he squares off with Downey have a fascinating quality of static kineticism as these two avowed enemies trade gentlemanly bon mots and witticisms with one another even as each plots to quash the other.
Zaki Hasan: Zaki's Review: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows Zaki Hasan 2011
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Even the complete scene uses framing to suggest movement rather than using actual kineticism:
Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2010
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Then cameras got smaller so all sorts of crazy kineticism could be recorded.
Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2010
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There's a kineticism about them that's wonderful; they shouldn't always be a reflective medium.
Brad Balfour: Director Danny Boyle Creates a Slumdog Millionaire and Serious Oscar Buzz 2008
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I mean, frigging beautiful too and starry night just makes me frak out with it kineticism and beauty.
Why, Yes, I Am Fiddling With the Background Again « Whatever 2007
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Mainstream comics rely on kineticism as their lifeblood, since we're essentially talking about still sequential pictures which convey the illusion of movement with the mind's eye of the reader filling in what happens between the panels, and we know already that when it comes to mass market entertainment far too many people conflate "action" with "fight scene."
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There was no sound save for the music; their violent motions, dancers 'movements assimilated into the fierce kineticism of the leather room.
The Ninja Lustbader, Eric 1980
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And it is to be hoped too that the author will take the bull by the horns and, in the next edition, show the nature of protoplasm in general in an homologous way, as the basis, through its uniquely complex kineticism, of the onward rush of the mental process.
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Although it sometimes conveyed the relentless kineticism of dance music, it was less about the groove than about energizing the melody, as the trio made plain with its ecstatic rearrangement of
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed J.D. Considine 2011
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