vignettes

Example Sentences

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“This Is Not About Running” is told through vignettes in very short chapters, which gives the story little narrative flow.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

These vignettes are where Gyllenhaal’s directorial eye shines the brightest, and where “The Bride!” brims with promise — just before the first of the film’s several unexplained narrative shifts.

From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026

Dean's secret weapon is the incisiveness of her lyrics, which paint instantly-recognisable vignettes of love.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026

In coarse, colloquial prose, translated by Kate Webster, these loosely united vignettes glance upon the lives of villagers who seem cursed by the land.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

Many more vignettes illustrating this and other simple logical errors might be cited, but the point is clear enough: both innumeracy and defective logic provide a fertile soil for the growth of pseudoscience.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos