mise-en-scene
Example Sentences
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Many are filmed by the tantrummers themselves, staging their moments of resistance with an eye toward narrative, drama, mise en scène.
From Slate • Jul. 10, 2020
When you see that she’s clutching a wrinkly brown paper bag, the mise en scène becomes somehow sadder.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 8, 2018
The signature of an auteur is more like a faint palimpsest visible underneath a film’s action, editing, mise en scène, etc., as opposed to a bold, conspicuous graffiti tag.
From Salon • Jul. 29, 2017
Dissolution is the atmosphere, the mise en scène, for virtually all his songs.
From The Guardian • Nov. 25, 2016
She seemed more composed, more sure of herself, now that she had been out in the yard and seen the whole mise en scène of the tragedy, which before that she had only vaguely imagined.
From A Bride of the Plains by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
