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[ verb ] select as an alternative; choose instead; prefer as an alternative
Examples "I always choose the fish over the meat courses in this restaurant" "She opted for the job on the East coast" Used in print (Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)If they opted_for illusion , it could only be illusion per_se - an illusion of depth , and of relief , so general and abstracted as to exclude the representation of individual objects . If , on_the_other_hand , they opted_for representation , it had to be representation per_se - representation as image pure_and_simple , without connotations ( at_least , without more than schematic ones ) of the three-dimensional space in which the objects represented originally existed . |
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