framing
Example Sentences
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“Whenever we would shoot nature, we would frame it the same way we would be framing a person,” Veloso says.
From Los Angeles Times
Rather than lashing out, Obama addressed the controversy in his trademark measured tone, framing the episode as part of a broader moral decline in American public life.
From Salon
Pushed on whether she agreed with Millar, she said: "It's a loose framing."
From BBC
I love a bildungsroman as a novel conceit and as a framing device.
From Los Angeles Times
Ms. Fennell has greatly streamlined the complicated plot of Emily Brontë’s novel, eliminating the framing device, the supernatural element, several peripheral figures and a second generation of characters.
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