vignette
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Performance and illusion are recurring themes: A woman is sawed in half in a depiction of classic stagecraft; elsewhere a juggler manipulates ovoids that each contain an everyday vignette.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
“Our results here show that, for the same client vignette, AI advisers recommend safer portfolios than human advisers and that … scenario cues, not adviser idiosyncrasies, drive the difference.”
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2025
This was one vignette from the striking array of the world's biggest Silicon Valley tech companies turning on the transatlantic investment tap.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2025
As part of a vanity vignette, Elliott can envision small photos of grandparents in silver frames interspersed with perfume and cologne bottles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2025
This vignette shows that even belonging to the same professional club as a writer is no protection against her curse of knowledge.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
There will be a nod to the 250th celebrations with historical "vignettes" between bouts, Axios reported, and there will also be military bands, a US military flyover and parachute display and a 10-minute fireworks finale.
From Barron's ● Jun. 14, 2026
“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
Those vignettes became source material for her new music.
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2026
“Ladies’ Lunch” and “Still Talking” comprise short vignettes about a group of aging friends who for decades have gotten together every other month or so on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
They were pictures of lovers in lonely parks, with vignettes of hearts pierced with arrows and golden ribbons held by doves.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
His grand themes are all there: a two-zone transfer is a bus ticket, sure — but also passage between realms of Black and white; haves and have-nots; harshly lit reality and vignetted dreams.
From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2022
As such, “Booth” has the feel of an oft-repeated family legend — vignetted at the edges, full of portents, omens and mysterious reversals of fate.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2022
The second filter vignetted around the subject to make them fit in the brandy snifter.
From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2022
Its political admirals, mercilessly vignetted by Larrabee, were boneheads or worse.
From Time Magazine Archive
The background should be very indistinct on the edges, and be vignetted in the shape of an oblong, having some very light clouds above and on either side of the head.
From Crayon Portraiture Complete Instructions for Making Crayon Portraits on Crayon Paper and on Platinum, Silver and Bromide Enlargements by Jerome A. Barhydt
We sent the picture above to Sony, and Rob Brennan, Product Technology Manager at Sony, told The Verge that “Just from this picture alone, this amount of vignetting is within acceptable tolerances.”
From The Verge ● Aug. 4, 2022
Also, there’s some vignetting in the corners and along sections of the edges of my M9 review unit.
From The Verge ● Aug. 4, 2022
Specifically, Lodi notes that they can cause issues such as blurring, distortion, and vignetting.
From Slate ● May 25, 2018
One last downside: In certain photos, when I adjusted the overall contrast in Photoshop later, I noticed some vignetting — darkened areas at the corners.
From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2012
I saw at once that the peculiarities of the design, of the vignetting, and of the frame, must have instantly dispelled such idea—must have prevented even its momentary entertainment.
From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Nathaniel Parker Willis
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