n. pl. atÂ·roÂ·phies. 1  1. A wasting or decrease in size of a body organ, tissue, or part owing to disease, injury, or lack of use: muscular atrophy of a person affected with paralysis. 2  2. A wasting away, deterioration, or diminution: intellectual atrophy.
August 2004: The Statue of Liberty reopens for the first time since Sept. 11, 2001. The Statue of Liberty reopens with monitors that show emergency exits. At the bottom of every monitor is a scrolling message: âIf you see something, say something.â.
While the word expressionist was used in the modern sense as early as 1850, its origin is sometimes traced to paintings exhibited in 1901 in Paris by an obscure artist JulienâAuguste Herve, hervÃ© which he Called. expressionismesheodor Adorno describes expressionism as concerned with the unconscious, and states that the depiction of fear lies at the centre of expressionist music, with dissonance predominating, so that the harmonious, affirmative element of art is banished (Adorno 2009, 275â76).