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1 Critics who praised the sculptor's early bronzes often used
2 the word plastic to describe her forms, meaning not
3 that the metal looked artificial but that it seemed
4 capable of further change, as though each curve had
5 been caught mid-transformation rather than fixed forever in its
6 final shape. This quality unsettled some viewers, who expected
7 monuments to project permanence, a sense that the subject
8 had been resolved once and for all. The sculptor
9 herself resisted that expectation, arguing that a figure frozen
10 in a single, definitive pose betrayed the restlessness of
11 the body it claimed to represent, and that true
12 likeness required the illusion of motion still in progress.
As it is used in line 2, the word "plastic" most nearly means:
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