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[ adverb ] in a plastic manner

Examples

"he used the clay plastically"

Used in print

(Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy....)

his quill drawings had a scratchiness , suggesting skin texture ; the clay he used plastically to suggest soft moving flesh , as in an abdomen , in a reclining torso ; the wax he smoothed_over to give the body surface an elastic pull .

Related terms

fictile fictile

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