How to Use hieratic in a Sentence
hieratic
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Napoleon’s stature here is magnified by the hieratic frontality of his pose and the fact that the image fills almost the entire canvas.
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Benjamin Shull,
WSJ,
2018-08-17
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Dench inhabits her hieratic role with wisdom, grace, nobility, and a sense of moment; Elba invests Macavity with fierce and insinuating power.
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Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
2019-12-27
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This impact of Owens’s hieratic wife and muse, the golden-toothed, henna-tattooed Michele Lamy, is also omnipresent, not least because her unique cackling laugh, mixed into a show-reel soundtrack, rings through the exhibition.
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Hamish Bowles,
Vogue,
2017-12-22
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