vanishing point
Example Sentences
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Ours pointed out fluffy booby hatchlings in the low branches of trees on one motu, and showed us up close the massive coconut crabs whose kind is coming back from the vanishing point.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2024
“Pass-Thru” culminates in his darkest sequence, with Thgil — another of the messianic aliens in which Breen specializes — walking toward the horizon’s vanishing point.
From New York Times ● Aug. 7, 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
When “parallel” lines converge at the vanishing point in a painting, observers are tricked into believing that the lines never meet.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
