cinematic

Example Sentences

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Sometimes it transforms and sometimes it softens into something steadier and less cinematic.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

It would be easy to take Emma’s confession as a simple cinematic provocation, a tone-deaf narrative device intended to make viewers squirm in their seats.

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026

“Dog Day Afternoon” makes for a largely diverting evening, but like many if not most stage versions of beloved films it never entirely succeeds at laying to rest the ghosts of its cinematic past.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

It produces movies intended for big cinematic releases, such as Top Gun: Maverick and the Transformers series.

From Barron's • Mar. 23, 2026

Like a cinematic mantra, a mystical trailer of memory, I replayed the scene of all those boys standing in the grass about the spontaneous creche of his death.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee