Machinery
1. Does the highlighted "with" in the following sentence mean "was replaced with"?
2. Does "machinery" here mean "industry"?
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Polcari here captures both the transcendent and particular nature of art as experience and imaginative space. The Great Depression restructured and refocused modernist styles in the arts, the optimistic and future-oriented focus on the pulse and magical power of machinery and urban life, with the socially oriented realism of the 1930s, with its focus on a lost but “usable past” and an uncertain future.
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catttt 1. Does the highlighted "with" in the following sentence mean "was replaced with"? I doubt it.
- catttt 1.
- Does the highlighted "with" in the following sentence mean "was replaced with"?
- I doubt it.
- To me it reads more like "combined with".
- catttt 2.
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catttt1. Does the highlighted "with" in the following sentence mean "was replaced with"?
I doubt it. To me it reads more like "combined with".
catttt2. Does "machinery" here mean "industry"?
No, it's not so broad a concept as 'industry'. It is literally machines — big, powerful machines such as those used in indu
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