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
It comes down to cinema’s status as an art, meant to stylize rather than simply reproduce reality.
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2023
They stylize things and it was a movie for fun.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2021
I take only my favorite shots and I tape them to my wall and then go through them, or stylize them in the way I like it.
From The Verge ● Sep. 14, 2018
What once would have required a professional production team can now be created and distributed in hours, allowing supporters and campaigns to produce highly stylized portrayals of political figures at scale.
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2026
Kim’s thin outlines and gentle washes clearly bear the influence of nihonga, the stylized, modern version of classical Japanese painting that he studied in Tokyo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
Pratt, wearing a beige suit and a hat with his name stylized like the L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 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
The fence has an entrance with a gigantic, stylized statue of a woman with huge earrings.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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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
And by stylizing the combat, Robbins has made it especially suspenseful and tragic.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 12, 2019
Staring into childhood trauma, stylizing it, exploring it from the vantage of maturity in order to understand the construction of the self: Such therapeutic forensics are so common among artists that they’re almost a cliché.
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2018
Williams’s performance is just as confident: you can hear Blige’s gospel–R. & B. stylizing in her harmonies, from the iconic opening, “Boy you should know thaaat,” to its deep-digging pre-chorus, “to have you, hold you, squeeze youuu.”
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 4, 2016
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 Walter Lippmann
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