risingly

comparative more risingly · superlative most risingly

1. rareIn a rising manner.

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   The play was written in a London of bubonic plague, cheap death, religious burnings, torture; a London given over to the deal: the buy/sell transactions of a risingly brutal capitalism dealing in information through spies and informers, flesh through rampantly exploitative prostitution, liberty and freedom through indentures and slavery.

   1987, Brian Rotman, “King Lear and ‘nothing’”, in Signifying Nothing: The Semiotics of Zero (Language, Discourse, Society), Basingstoke, Hants.; London: The Macmillan Press Ltd, →ISBN, section 3 (Nothing: Zero), page 81

   Painting was just one, though the most visible, witness to the perceptual change that spread through every form – reflecting not just a risingly confident avant garde, but the new views of consciousness and perception, the new apocalyptic awareness of modernity and universal change, that was brought by an age massing technology, new social conflict, increasing urbanisation, and the growing systematisation of life.

   1987, Malcolm Bradbury, “‘A Dog Engulfed in Sand’: Character and Abstraction in Contemporary Writing and Painting”, in No, Not Bloomsbury, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, published 1988, →ISBN, part 1 (Writer and Critic), section 3, pages 31–32

   An experimental, risingly postmodern, gallery of fiction for which Invisible Man always acted as the beacon, equally made its bow, notably William Demby’s cubist The Catacombs (1965), William Melvin Kelley’s fantasist picture of white suburbia and Harlem, dem (1967), John Wideman’s peregrinatory Hurry Home (1970) and Leon Forrest’s dream-memoir of black Chicago, There Is a Tree More Ancient Than Eden (1973).

   2020, A[rthur] Robert Lee, “Introduction: 25ᵗʰ Anniversary Edition: Perspective and Memoir”, in Designs of Blackness: Mappings in the Literature and Culture of Afro-America, 25th anniversary edition, New York, N.Y.: Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 8