[About prominent critics lambasting his film2001:] New York was the only really hostile city. Perhaps there is a certain element of thelumpen literati that is so dogmatically atheist and materialist and Earth-bound that it finds the grandeur of space and the myriad mysteries of cosmic intelligence anathema.
2000, Joanne Morra, Mark Robson, Marquard Smith,The Limits of Death: Between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis,→ISBN, page72:
This something, which is neither body nor machine but interior and alien to them both, pertains to the 'meat' in Gibson's world insofar as the 'meat' - that useless corporeal remainder discarded by the machine - retains an excess that cannot be reduced to thelumpen mass of fleshy existence.
2001, Adrian Beard,Texts and Contexts: Introducing Literature and Language Study,→ISBN:
Using the last two as an example, there is a constant sense of contrast in the poem, in this case between the streamlined ship which will surge through the water and the merelumpen shape of the clumsy iceberg.
Billy and Dandy had draped a tarp over the body but the shape itself lookedlumpen and grotesque.
2020 August 7, Jonathan Liew, “Phil Foden stars to offer Manchester City glimpse of multiple futures”, inThe Guardian[1]:
a slaloming winger puttinglumpen defenders on their backsides, or even a sneaky centre-forward, using his boundless energy to lead the press and force mistakes.
1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 2 Dated or archaic. 3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
