vanishing point
Example Sentences
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The three meet in a vanishing point at the bottom edge as if a textbook illustration for Renaissance one-point perspective.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2024
The painting’s primary form is the big, top log that booms outward while its back end diminishes swiftly to a distant vanishing point.
From New York Times • Jul. 27, 2023
“The vanishing point corresponding to parallel lines on the screen, price, and ‘Don’t blame…’ text are inconsistent,” Farid wrote.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 3, 2022
Yet after decades of dominating ideas about how a writer should live and work, Hemingway feels increasingly irrelevant today, his influence diminished to a vanishing point, his reputation corroded by a dated personal mythos.
From Slate • Apr. 5, 2021
As a consequence of the vanishing point, artists found themselves living simultaneously in two incommensurable worlds.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
