scrim

Example Sentences

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Then swirling clouds are projected onto the scrim — a tacky recurring “visual intermezzo,” as it is called in the credits — and a maid enters.

From New York Times

Mid-site, an element named the Confluence will feature a scrim fountain and allude to a canal that once ran through the location.

From Washington Post

On a philosophical level, the elephants do model a certain resistance against the frenzy of capitalism, a surge of nature under the scrim of civilization.

From New York Times

Late in his novel, “Real Life,” Brandon Taylor breached the scrim between himself and what he wanted to describe.

From Los Angeles Times

It seems right, then, that Ditlevsen’s own mother figures so prominently early in these memoirs, her love for her daughter perceptible, if barely, through the twisted scrim of her own thwartedness.

From New York Times