monochrome
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In contrast to the gorgeous monochrome visuals, this is a land that stinks of complicity and delusion — of opportunists desperate to scramble onto the right side of history.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
The new monochrome packages will go on sale in Japan May 25, Calbee said, blaming difficulties procuring raw materials such as naphtha, a petrochemical used in paints and inks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
To demonstrate this precision, the researchers used a standard laser to create a microscopic monochrome portrait of Albert Einstein on a thin piece of the material, with points spaced just 700 nanometers apart.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 21, 2026
Kyiv was in the depths of a frigid winter so monochrome that the scene on the platform could have been an old newsreel, but it was 2022 and happening in a technicolour, digital age.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026
"A monochrome Jackson Pollock," Jane says, and then tells Tiny, "We gotta bolt. This band is like a root canal sans painkiller."
From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan
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In Norway, Opie hoped to explore — and contribute to — the long history of blue in art, from Pablo Picasso’s Blue Period to Yves Klein’s monochromes and Derek Jarman’s elegiac film “Blue.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026
The catalog’s full-page reproductions, in spectacular colors or crepuscular monochromes, are frequently transporting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
The artist said that none of his monochromes resembled each other and were "of quite a different essence and atmosphere", according to Christie's.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2025
“Orange Glyph,” for instance, presents a bright orange canvas that would live happily among the postwar monochromes of Yves Klein.
From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2023
Instead of bookshelves, this wall was crowded with framed pictures of all sizes, some in vibrant colors, others dull monochromes.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
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