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Alexandrianism

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Alexandrianism
the style and theories of the Greek writers of Alexandria, 325-30 B.C., whose style was highly ornamented and obscure and favored such forms as the elegy, epigram, epyllion, and lyric and also ventured into the drama. — Alexandrianist, n., adj.
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the style and theories of the Greek writers of Alexandria, 325-30 B.C., whose style was highly ornamented and obscure and favored such forms as the elegy, epigram, epyllion, and lyric and also ventured into the drama. — Alexandrianist, n., adj.
See also: Greece and Greeks
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Her sensationalism has become "motionless Alexandrianism," as Clement Greenberg called it; that is, the mechanical repetition of cliche.
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