golemlike
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]golemlike (comparative more golemlike, superlative most golemlike)
- Resembling or characteristic of a golem.
- 2015 August 26, Joshua Mack, “Sharjah Biennial 12”, in ArtReview[1]:
- Painted in garish colours, they alternately depict scenes from Palestinian life, weddings, Iftar feasts and suchlike, and Surrealist amalgams of martyrs and monsters, including a golemlike figure inscribed ‘Pinochet’. Together they assert that for Palestinians daily existence itself constitutes resistance.
- 2016 December 25, Anne Roiphe, “Cynthia Ozick’s Golem Story Is a Fairy Tale of Sexual Obsession and Dentistry”, in Forward[2]:
- Also, Puttermesser has periodontal disease. This is significant only because Xanthippe is brought to life, golemlike, by the magical letters stuffed into her mouth.