mise en scène
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
The mise en scène is sumptuously prepared with flourishes of rococo drollery.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
“With her sense of immediacy and mise en scène, she’s created a mode of participation in which you are required to be present, to participate.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2021
Dress up as a detective, create a crime scene on your stoop, tape it off with caution tape, and then toss candy out from within your mise en scène.
From Slate ● Sep. 29, 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
It is a queer landscape, but one of new natural beauties frankly and sympathetically discovered, and it forms a mise en scène which, I make bold to say, would have scandalised neither Keats nor Spenser.
From Kentucky Poems by Madison J. Cawein
I often say what interested me with the mise-en-scene was to allow the viewer to live the experience.
From Salon ● Jan. 9, 2023
A showbusiness legend and an award-winning director, Streisand undoubtedly knows the effect her mise-en-scene will create.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2021
The mise-en-scene was Scorsese via Buster Keaton: Trump’s mock mug filled the screen for a second before it fell into a waste bin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2021
Obama appeared on screen, the final speaker on the first night of the Democratic convention, to deliver her talk in a beige-colored room that had been blurred into an impersonal mise-en-scene.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 18, 2020
The mise-en-scene does not require any special efforts; the piece only requires a somewhat piquant and not unskillful soprano singer.
From Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 1 from Paris to Rome: Years of Travel as a Virtuoso by Constance Bache
I went to film school, where I learned words like "auteur" and "mise en scene."
From Salon ● Mar. 16, 2021
Chavkin, who supervised the creation of the stunning mise en scene for Broadway’s “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812,” reminds audiences in the Walter Kerr of her remarkable eye.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 17, 2019
His most recent two films feature muted palettes, claustrophobic mise en scene, and a straightforward storytelling approach.
From Slate ● Nov. 16, 2012
Courtney Weisman, 22 years old, said she gets annoyed when she catches herself staring at her neighbor's mise en scene.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2010
Then the incident of the plate differs so completely from anything in the ordinary mise en scene of supernatural stories.
From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann
The songs are rapid mise-en-scènes, with Whack as mordant narrator, as if she’d been plucked from a rambunctious but meditative teen movie.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 1, 2018
From salt and pepper shakers to cookie jars to Freudian mise-en-scènes, Steinbach’s work pulls from so much that’s recognizable, but always shifted or shuffled a bit.
From Slate ● Dec. 1, 2017
Although the productions featured impressive sets and lighting, the efforts did not pay off because of cumbersome mise-en-scènes and emotional flatness.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2010
