Example sentences for: platonic

How can you use “platonic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Glenn's vision of the Senate is Platonic: a committee of the wise, elevated above conflict and partisanship, that does what is right for the nation.

  • The core concept of Lichtenstein's art is the iconic—drastic simplification of line and shadowing to reduce to the Platonic ideal of the object depicted—golf ball, truck tire, composition book, girl in love, or even the basic brushstroke of a daub of paint [1].

  • Although he was initially attracted to me, the feeling wasn't mutual, so we became platonic friends.

  • Since then the myth has persisted that here encoded in these quasi-representational forms was the quintessence of thought, the eternal Platonic ideal, the Jungian Ur- symbol underlying all human cogitation--and by extrapolation, speech--the (al)lure of the fabulous (Far) East playing an obvious role.

  • Unless they can articulate this Platonic essence, anti-meliorists do not have a foundation for their argument that change, improvement, and betterment are grave threats to humanity.


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