scrim

Example Sentences

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Set in a permanent haze behind a scrim, the production, aided by clever casting and costuming, at least finally made Giovanni and his servant, Leporello, the uncanny doppelgängers they are in the libretto.

From New York Times

Then swirling clouds are projected onto the scrim — a tacky recurring “visual intermezzo,” as it is called in the credits — and a maid enters.

From New York Times

The floral pattern is a two-dimensional visual scrim overlaid on the illusionistic, carefully three-dimensional figures of mother and child.

From Los Angeles Times

But this was typically done behind a scrim of private meetings and campaign-finance reports, and while the business community’s own politics might have tended toward chamber-of-commerce conservatism, the lobbying and giving were usually calculatedly bipartisan.

From New York Times

Mid-site, an element named the Confluence will feature a scrim fountain and allude to a canal that once ran through the location.

From Washington Post