What's the difference between platonic and platonically?

Platonic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Platonical
  • (n.) A follower of Plato; a Platonist.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And beneath them, Iman Mohamed Abdulmajid, the only black woman in a room of images of mostly white men, is doing her best to follow Platon's directions.
  • (2) "A Platonic academy, or symposium," he says, "is a group of people sitting round a table discussing ideas, which is a great thing to do.
  • (3) All the people who Platon has photographed are used to being in control.
  • (4) Moretti has spoken previously of making criticism less like a Platonic academy, and more like a laboratory.
  • (5) Platon, born in 1968 in London, has won many international awards for his work.
  • (6) For some reason, no actual lake I visit ever measures up to the ideal platonic lake for which I yearn.
  • (7) Judge Viktor Danilkin sentenced Khodorkovsky, 47, and his business partner, Platon Lebedev, 54, to 14 years in a penal colony, including time already served, meaning the pair will not be free for seven more years.
  • (8) And the platonic concept of a library can be a caravan with some books in it.
  • (9) Sage's major study of neo-Platonism and English poetry was uncompleted at the time of her death.
  • (10) We are platonic adult roommates who hold hands at bars.
  • (11) Yet for a fraction of a second Platon is the one with power.
  • (12) And the first rule is, you have to be platonic first.
  • (13) Ihave the deepest sympathy for Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his fellow unfortunate, Platon Lebedev .
  • (14) Earlier Platon Lebedev, Khodorkovsky's co-defendant, angrily dismissed the Kremlin charges as "rotten".
  • (15) Platon Platon’s portrait of Ahmadinejad I had an idea that all our leaders are presented to us through a veil of propaganda.
  • (16) There's different kinds of love, and I'd never experienced that kind of totally platonic love.
  • (17) Platon Lebedev, another former executive, who was jailed by a Russian court on tax-evasion charges and was released this year, is another victor.
  • (18) Photograph: Platon for the Observer And then that's it.
  • (19) On the walls are dozens of enlarged close-ups of other people who have all sat, at one time or another, for Platon , the London-born photographer who has made his name and career photographing the rich and powerful.
  • (20) This article was corrected on 22 May: the Piraeus University economics professor is Platon Tinios, not Platos

Platonically


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a Platonic manner.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And beneath them, Iman Mohamed Abdulmajid, the only black woman in a room of images of mostly white men, is doing her best to follow Platon's directions.
  • (2) "A Platonic academy, or symposium," he says, "is a group of people sitting round a table discussing ideas, which is a great thing to do.
  • (3) All the people who Platon has photographed are used to being in control.
  • (4) Moretti has spoken previously of making criticism less like a Platonic academy, and more like a laboratory.
  • (5) Platon, born in 1968 in London, has won many international awards for his work.
  • (6) For some reason, no actual lake I visit ever measures up to the ideal platonic lake for which I yearn.
  • (7) Judge Viktor Danilkin sentenced Khodorkovsky, 47, and his business partner, Platon Lebedev, 54, to 14 years in a penal colony, including time already served, meaning the pair will not be free for seven more years.
  • (8) And the platonic concept of a library can be a caravan with some books in it.
  • (9) Sage's major study of neo-Platonism and English poetry was uncompleted at the time of her death.
  • (10) We are platonic adult roommates who hold hands at bars.
  • (11) Yet for a fraction of a second Platon is the one with power.
  • (12) And the first rule is, you have to be platonic first.
  • (13) Ihave the deepest sympathy for Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his fellow unfortunate, Platon Lebedev .
  • (14) Earlier Platon Lebedev, Khodorkovsky's co-defendant, angrily dismissed the Kremlin charges as "rotten".
  • (15) Platon Platon’s portrait of Ahmadinejad I had an idea that all our leaders are presented to us through a veil of propaganda.
  • (16) There's different kinds of love, and I'd never experienced that kind of totally platonic love.
  • (17) Platon Lebedev, another former executive, who was jailed by a Russian court on tax-evasion charges and was released this year, is another victor.
  • (18) Photograph: Platon for the Observer And then that's it.
  • (19) On the walls are dozens of enlarged close-ups of other people who have all sat, at one time or another, for Platon , the London-born photographer who has made his name and career photographing the rich and powerful.
  • (20) This article was corrected on 22 May: the Piraeus University economics professor is Platon Tinios, not Platos

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