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Adjective
The surfaces and spaces of Seurat and Signac, for example, are ordered, reposeful, trance-y, scientific.—Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 7 July 2021 To our eyes, the image looks reposeful, soothing, sedate, like the opening of a Merchant Ivory film.—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2020