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[ adjective ] of the clearest kind; usually used for emphasis
Synonyms Examples "it's the literal truth" "a matter of investment, pure and simple" Used in print (Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)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 . Related terms |
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