vignette
Example Sentences
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Dean's secret weapon is the incisiveness of her lyrics, which paint instantly-recognisable vignettes of love.
From BBC
In coarse, colloquial prose, translated by Kate Webster, these loosely united vignettes glance upon the lives of villagers who seem cursed by the land.
Kacie Rose, a former professional dancer, shares vignettes of her new life in Italy that she compiled into a bestselling memoir, “You Deserve Good Gelato.”
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.
His eyebrow-raising biography is dissected by way of inventive vignettes that blend performance and wildly interactive sets.
From Los Angeles Times
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