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- adjective
imitative of aclassical style
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Examples
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Although, does Plato say much about Atlantis - do we know it was thought of as a pseudoclassical civilisation?
The Science of Middle Earth, by Henry Gee. Book review Carla 2009
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There is an inflexibility about the poetic drama which is by no means a matter of classical, or neoclassical, or pseudoclassical law.
Philip Massinger Thomas Stearns 1920
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The big winner is bleeding-edge composer Son Lux, who handily flips the second installment upside down largely by placing digital drums and chirps alongside perversely overeager pseudoclassical instrumentation, vaguely in the template of Björk's remarkable unhinged-camp Sinatra-shrieker "It's Oh So Quiet."
The L Magazine - New York City's Local Event and Arts & Culture Guide 2010
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The big winner is bleeding-edge composer Son Lux, who handily flips the second installment upside down largely by placing digital drums and chirps alongside perversely overeager pseudoclassical instrumentation, vaguely in the template of Björk's remarkable unhinged-camp Sinatra-shrieker "It's Oh So Quiet."
The L Magazine - New York City's Local Event and Arts & Culture Guide 2010
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