canonic

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On that subject, Ross is most persuasive in his close readings of canonic post-Wagnerian literature, particularly Proust’s “Remembrance of Things Past,” Joyce’s “Ulysses,” Virginia Woolf’s “The Waves” and the novels of Mann.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2020

However, a parallel narrative universe exists that is the game’s “real” version of events: each Tekken game has a canon winner, and this canonic story focuses on the Mishima family blood feud.

From The Guardian • Feb. 26, 2020

Each seemed finely wrought, such as an early one in which a short stretch of canonic layering suavely morphed into a Minimalist pulse before dissolving into a series of strangely harmonized sighs.

From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2018

In the classroom, I had learned to think of writing as canonic, penned by giants.

From Slate • Sep. 11, 2016

He paid much less attention to rigid canonic style than his predecessors had done because it was not suited to the kind of music which he felt was fitting for his church.

From Some Forerunners of Italian Opera by Henderson, W. J. (William James)