vignette
Example Sentences
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Even so, the kaleidoscope of tales and vignettes, and the blurring of the banal with the macabre, produces a dusky, dreamlike atmosphere that envelopes one’s thoughts like a fine mist.
Because each vignette is no more than a few minutes long and consists of Kafkaesque conversations that border on the absurd, “Terrestrial Verses” operates with a cumulative effect.
From New York Times
Orange writes vignettes from the perspectives of different Native characters across the U.S. who gather for the Big Powwow at the Oakland Coliseum.
From New York Times
Wood furniture is both décor itself and also offers places on which to showcase décor, offering flat and sturdy surfaces upon which vignettes can be built and displayed.
From Seattle Times
At The New Yorker, he injected wit into pensive “Talk of the Town” vignettes.
From New York Times
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