schematic
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Yet even Bergman’s most schematic films—the ones in which ideas seem to drive him as much as mood, style or plot—make expressive use of cinema’s aesthetic vocabulary: light, composition, sometimes color, always sound or music.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
If there is something schematic about the arc, the characters within it, Clive as much as Leo, are completely human.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
But even if Hegel’s interpretation would have seemed off the mark to him, Antigone and Creon are too complex to reduce to a schematic argument.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
If films about catastrophe often take a schematic, meet-the-victims approach to their opening scenes, Ms. Littman renders hers with persuasive vibrancy, too full of life to have room for heavy-handed portent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
Or creating a schematic for an invention that would’ve shifted the world.
From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone
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