mise-en-scene
Example Sentences
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“With her sense of immediacy and mise en scène, she’s created a mode of participation in which you are required to be present, to participate.”
From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2021
Dress up as a detective, create a crime scene on your stoop, tape it off with caution tape, and then toss candy out from within your mise en scène.
From Slate • Sep. 29, 2020
Peter Farrelly, if we ignore the harassment issues, knows what he’s doing, picking great line readings and barely putting a foot wrong with an elegant mise en scène.
From The Guardian • Feb. 22, 2019
When you see that she’s clutching a wrinkly brown paper bag, the mise en scène becomes somehow sadder.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 8, 2018
One distinct dramatic advantage was gained by the mise en scène.
From Reviews by Wilde, Oscar
