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stylize

[stahy-lahyz] / ˈstaɪ laɪz /
VERB
conventionalize
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG


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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

It comes down to cinema’s status as an art, meant to stylize rather than simply reproduce reality.

From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2023

I take only my favorite shots and I tape them to my wall and then go through them, or stylize them in the way I like it.

From The Verge ● Sep. 14, 2018

In the future, we may be able to stylize the interior with our own lighting, videoscapes, and soundtracks.

From Slate ● Mar. 15, 2018

Bukele accompanied his social media post with a video of soldiers filing into planes and cargo being loaded, a stylized compilation that is a hallmark of his tireless social media presence.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

The writing is clever, coolly stylized and, alas, deathly boring.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Funko’s job, he said, is to distill what people love about a character into a stylized version of it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026

But that is the great joy of Anderson’s “Resident Evil” films: They are so remarkably stylized, so absurdly over-the-top, so referential and deferent to Anderson’s own inspirations, that they’ve become singular visions.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

With a deliberation that bordered, to her thinking, on something stylized, he folded his hands together and waited at attention.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

Parker and Stone take that personal license and run with it, stylizing their own experience instead of trivializing someone else’s.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 2, 2020

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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