Example sentences for: clement

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  • Four-power control of Berlin was agreed at Potsdam by Winston Churchill (replaced in mid-conference by Clement Attlee, his successor as Prime Minister), Harry Truman, and Joseph Stalin.

  • It has been replaced by a conceptual orthodoxy every bit as reductive and exclusionary as Roger Fry and Clement Greenberg never actually were.

  • Linked to the Vatican by a thick-walled passage, it served as a hideout for popes in times of danger, notably Pope Clement VII, who holed up here for a month during the sack of Rome by Habsburg troops in 1527 (see page 27).

  • If you preferred his early landscapes, it was easy to regard this new Soutine as--in the words of Clement Greenberg, who reviewed the MoMA show--"a victim of the museum."

  • These "breakthrough" paintings, as Rothko himself called them, with their thick layers of paint laid on with big brushes purchased at a hardware store, give the lie to the critic Clement Greenberg's influential claim that Rothko "seems to soak his paint into the canvas to get a dyer's effect and avoid the connotations of a discrete layer of paint on top of the surface."


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