How to Use demotic in a Sentence

demotic

adjective

• In England, Champollion's main rival in the race to decode the slab focused his efforts on the demotic section of the stone.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 12 Oct. 2022
• Some authors think that no book can succeed unless demotic and dumb.
  — Felipe Fernández-Armesto, WSJ, 28 July 2017
• Instead, Baker does trash-and-vaudeville as in his demotic fashion ad Khaite FW21.
  — Armond White, National Review, 29 Dec. 2021
• The first was written in hieroglyphs and the second in the demotic script, a cursive form of ancient Egyptian similar in style to written Arabic.
  — Benjamin Plackett, Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2022
• In truth, most of his pet objects look nostalgic only from our present vantage; in their day, his cheeseburgers and ice-cream desserts were demotic, slangy—a provocation.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 21 July 2022
• The U.S.–Saudi preference for regime change and demotic movements (no matter how loathsome) has been a gift to extremists everywhere.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 20 July 2017
• But the words Perdita speaks, defending the aesthetics of the natural over the artificial and refined, could be applied as well to the ambitious use of demotic language, a practice that, at the time Shakespeare wrote, was still new.
  — Marilynne Robinson, New Republic, 12 Dec. 2017
• The fire, virtuosity and spiritual imagination with which Morgan conjures this weary, seen-it-all, demotic black prophet — like so much else in her book — are nothing short of genius.
  — Jaimy Gordon, New York Times, 10 June 2016
• Carved on the dark, granite-like stone were indecipherable hieroglyphics, the simplified Egyptian demotic script and ancient Greek.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 15 Oct. 2022
• Formally commanding, the multicolored suite captures in sprightly imagery and describes in demotic words a host of Black citizens—real lives, really led—in windows of tenements along a city street that’s past due for intersecting with Fifth Avenue.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2020
• What does her embrace of the Republican base's most demotic superstitions tell us about the character of the contemporary right — and the character of contemporary American politics more generally?
  — Damon Linker, The Week, 29 Mar. 2022
• The American right has been molded in his anti-elitist, grassroots, demotic, irreverent, patriotic, hard-charging image.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 8 Feb. 2020
• That meant the demotic and hieroglyphic portions would be similar to the Greek text, and for the first time ever, scholars had a shot at understanding the mysterious symbols.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 29 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 15 Oct 2024