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.
Over a series of nonlinear, discursive vignettes, McDermott illustrates a vision of reality, laid out by the psychologist Arnold Mindell, on three levels: Consensus Reality, Dreamland and Essence.
From New York Times
It’s a meanly suggestive line, and it haunts the movie’s every subsequent frame; you can never be sure whether its three vignettes are being told in sequential order or happening completely independently of each other.
From Los Angeles Times
Less identifiable is the seemingly Old World setting of Jim Coates’s vignette of a small crowd on a partly flooded street.
From Washington Post
These surreal vignettes are Pina Bausch-lite, telling us that we are in the dark and muddled entrails of the unconscious, excavating the pit, or core, of the self.
From New York Times
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