inkblot test
noun
: any of several psychological tests (such as a Rorschach test) based on the interpretation of irregular figures (such as blots of ink)
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Her initial expression becomes an inkblot test for the audience as the rest of the two-episode premiere plays out.
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Ben Travers, IndieWire, 11 Oct. 2024
Still, the apparent friction between Soho House’s you-can’t-sit-with-us brand and Portland’s reputation for crunchy eccentricity has made the club a kind of inkblot test for locals’ opinions on the city’s evolving identity.
—Callie Holtermann, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
The premiere is something of an inkblot test.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2021
This is not to re-litigate Gurianov’s play, which tends to resemble an inkblot test.
—Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2022
Brewer shows me —views from the side, back, and top—look like a cross between a nice, fat slice of sausage and a Rorschach inkblot test.
—David Ewing Duncan, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2019
The three may have combined to produce post-sunset skies on the western horizon that seemed to represent a sort of meteorological inkblot test.
—Martin Weil, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2022
The Rorschach inkblot test was in use, as were the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, a 567-item questionnaire, and the Thematic Apperception Test, developed by the Harvard psychologist Henry Murray.
—Benedict Carey, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2022
The final element in Albert’s in-take as a study subject included a Rorschach inkblot test administered on May 11, 1944.
—BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2022
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Ben Travers, IndieWire, 11 Oct. 2024
Still, the apparent friction between Soho House’s you-can’t-sit-with-us brand and Portland’s reputation for crunchy eccentricity has made the club a kind of inkblot test for locals’ opinions on the city’s evolving identity.
—Callie Holtermann, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
The premiere is something of an inkblot test.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2021
This is not to re-litigate Gurianov’s play, which tends to resemble an inkblot test.
—Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2022
Brewer shows me —views from the side, back, and top—look like a cross between a nice, fat slice of sausage and a Rorschach inkblot test.
—David Ewing Duncan, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2019
The three may have combined to produce post-sunset skies on the western horizon that seemed to represent a sort of meteorological inkblot test.
—Martin Weil, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2022
The Rorschach inkblot test was in use, as were the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, a 567-item questionnaire, and the Thematic Apperception Test, developed by the Harvard psychologist Henry Murray.
—Benedict Carey, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2022
The final element in Albert’s in-take as a study subject included a Rorschach inkblot test administered on May 11, 1944.
—BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2022
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