stylize
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The database then served as graphic inspiration, allowing the computer to stylize the shots of the cities where the film takes place, accelerating production that would otherwise have taken years.
From Barron's ● Mar. 10, 2026
“The Western was born at the beginning of the century with cinema. What Hollywood did was create the American epic and also stylize their reality,” says Almodóvar, speaking alongside Hawke.
From Seattle Times ● May 23, 2023
“I think we were homing in on Leyendecker because of his ability to stylize, to make characters feel monumental,” he says.
From The Verge ● Sep. 2, 2021
I don’t mean books about autism, but, rather, novels that include characters who have autism or that use symptoms of the disorder as a metaphor or plot device, or to stylize language.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2019
In the future, we may be able to stylize the interior with our own lighting, videoscapes, and soundtracks.
From Slate ● Mar. 15, 2018
Wilde’s follow-up, the 2022 psychodrama “Don’t Worry Darling,” became mired in behind-the-scenes gossip and tabloid speculation that overshadowed what was intended as a stylized portrait of female rage and discontent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
What once would have required a professional production team can now be created and distributed in hours, allowing supporters and campaigns to produce highly stylized portrayals of political figures at scale.
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2026
Steve Buscemi appeared in a pre-recorded comedic bit, and Eminem surfaced in a stylized role as a fire marshal figure in a sketch that helped drive the episode’s surreal tone.
From Salon ● May 23, 2026
Gilgamesh’s lament is not the stylized keening of epic tradition—not Achilles’ highfalutin howls after Hector strikes down Patroclus—but something rawer, humbler, more recognizably human.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
She noticed Lucy at a Rock the Native Vote table talking to a woman with a stylized image of a muskrat on her T-shirt and some Cherokee syllabary.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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Nick was playing with a professional team called TH3 NSAN3Z — stylizing theirs — when they won the Gears of War 2 national championship in 2009 and the team walked home $40,000 richer.
From The Verge ● Apr. 22, 2021
And by stylizing the combat, Robbins has made it especially suspenseful and tragic.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 12, 2019
One day as he and Lubezki drove a van full of lighting gear from a shoot in New Jersey, he gazed at the passing landscape and asked out loud, “Why are we stylizing all this?”
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2018
Williams’s performance is just as confident: you can hear Blige’s gospel–R. & B. stylizing in her harmonies, from the iconic opening, “Boy you should know thaaat,” to its deep-digging pre-chorus, “to have you, hold you, squeeze youuu.”
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 4, 2016
In fact, human culture is very largely the selection, the rearrangement, the tracing of patterns upon, and the stylizing of, what William James called "the random irradiations and resettlements of our ideas."
From Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann
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