Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
symbolic , 4. - Characterized by the use of symbols: as, symbolistic poetry.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Characterized by the use of symbols.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Characterized by the use of
symbols .
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Examples
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Randy Weaver – interesting you chose the screen name of another heavily armed militia whack job to defend the "symbolistic" nature of the heavily armed militia whack jobs.
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His brilliant cinematographic 'camerawork', the way he uses white misty lines and colors as symbolistic visual messages to show the emotional state of a character or anxiety the blue tears and the white mist makes him to me the most effective expressionist of comic books.
Drawn Together James Gurney 2009
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Sure, it may seem a bit much to some of us but I think that mostly what they are doing is symbolistic in nature and setting an example of sorts for the rest of us to not sit on our butts and do nothing.
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And when I write my symbolistic, serious, impressionistic novels, I write them in pencil.
News at Eleven (Back Page): Here's an example of just how ripe Rus Bowden 2006
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And when I write my symbolistic, serious, impressionistic novels, I write them in pencil.
Archive 2006-11-01 Rus Bowden 2006
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Gustave Moreau 1826-98, French painter who combined academic style with intensely symbolistic and romantic subjects.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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Gustave Moreau 1826-98, French painter who combined academic style with intensely symbolistic and romantic subjects.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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Gustave Moreau 1826-98, French painter who combined academic style with intensely symbolistic and romantic subjects.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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Gustave Moreau 1826-98, French painter who combined academic style with intensely symbolistic and romantic subjects.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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But retrospectively it can be seen that the so - called naturalists had their symbolistic side, most strik - ingly Zola.
MOTIF HARRY LEVIN 1968
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