diagrammatic
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In diagrammatic canvases that look like otherworldly computer chips, she writes her own invented language and creates charts and instructions inscrutable to the viewer—not a problem since they’re meant for nonhuman entities.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
Check out diagrammatic paintings in Chelsea or Catharine Czudej’s fun house on the Upper East Side.
From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2023
One casts shadows, the other is flatter, more diagrammatic, with thread sewn into the canvas; a new proposition about the same thing.
From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2022
The Hollywood Reporter: “David Mamet’s latest effort, which the playwright has also directed, is just as diagrammatic, glib and insincere as any over-massaged middlebrow Miramax film from the 1990s.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2019
Typical, not that any particular kind of living cell resembles it very closely in appearance, but because it shows in a diagrammatic way the essential parts of a cell.
From Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics by Guyer, Michael F.