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
Yagher adds the Crypt Keeper was stylized for the video based on the look of then-current hot music artists, namely Ice-T, Axl Rose, Ice Cube “and even Vanilla Ice.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
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
I found the second act less rewarding, and inconclusive, as the play becomes more fantastical and stylized.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
There was a stylized poster of Che Guevara celebrating a little-known holiday on Oct.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
I avert my eyes, open my hand, and trace the pattern on the inside of my palm—two stylized hearts, one atop the other, locked in an eternal headbutting competition.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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It was Jolicoeur’s innovation to raid their dads’ closets for bell bottoms and straighten the legs, not to mention stylizing their asymmetrical haircuts.
From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2023
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
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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