scrim

Example Sentences

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Instead, Harry seems to be fully present, with no scrim between himself and the reader.

From New York Times

Tamaribuchi’s gorgeously haunting, large-scale “Camouflage Net Project” spans the gallery with a scrim that evokes associations with war but is interwoven with beautiful fabric from kimonos.

From Seattle Times

Their personalities peek out from behind the scrim of their defined, taken-for-granted roles.

From New York Times

When the image drops away, yet more art appears on the walls behind — indistinguishable, in any meaningful way, from the art on your side of the scrim.

From New York Times

Domestic labor in Latino neighborhoods is charted, men and women glimpsed with washing machines through a scrim of graffiti scrawled on the windows.

From Los Angeles Times