stylize
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The database then served as graphic inspiration, allowing the computer to stylize the shots of the cities where the film takes place, accelerating production that would otherwise have taken years.
From Barron's ● Mar. 10, 2026
“The Western was born at the beginning of the century with cinema. What Hollywood did was create the American epic and also stylize their reality,” says Almodóvar, speaking alongside Hawke.
From Seattle Times ● May 23, 2023
Unfortunately, you can’t stylize your captions — you’re pretty much stuck with what you get, which tends to be white lettering on a slightly darkened rectangle.
From The Verge ● Jul. 9, 2021
Like Ellington, Sorey wrote with his performers in mind, encouraging them to stylize his writing and “make that music yours.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2021
In the future, we may be able to stylize the interior with our own lighting, videoscapes, and soundtracks.
From Slate ● Mar. 15, 2018
Steve Buscemi appeared in a pre-recorded comedic bit, and Eminem surfaced in a stylized role as a fire marshal figure in a sketch that helped drive the episode’s surreal tone.
From Salon ● May 23, 2026
These are highly stylized, high-stakes pregame outfits that many professional athletes wear when arriving at the stadium or arena, capitalizing on the opportunity to get seen on their own terms.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
That symbolism has only become more visible in recent months amid renewed attention on gold Trump statues, AI-generated heroic imagery and other forms of highly stylized political branding circulating online.
From Salon ● May 10, 2026
She co-writes, directs and stars in this highly stylized, wonderfully DIY handmade project, beautifully designed with gruesomely gothic sets by production designer Becca Morrin and art director Ashley Devereux.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026
She noticed Lucy at a Rock the Native Vote table talking to a woman with a stylized image of a muskrat on her T-shirt and some Cherokee syllabary.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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Nick was playing with a professional team called TH3 NSAN3Z — stylizing theirs — when they won the Gears of War 2 national championship in 2009 and the team walked home $40,000 richer.
From The Verge ● Apr. 22, 2021
Parker and Stone take that personal license and run with it, stylizing their own experience instead of trivializing someone else’s.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 2, 2020
It’s stylizing a thing that, at some unconscious level, you’re afraid of.
From New York Times ● Aug. 29, 2019
And by stylizing the combat, Robbins has made it especially suspenseful and tragic.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 12, 2019
In fact, human culture is very largely the selection, the rearrangement, the tracing of patterns upon, and the stylizing of, what William James called "the random irradiations and resettlements of our ideas."
From Public Opinion by Lippmann, Walter
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