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vignette

[vin-yet] / vɪnˈjɛt /
NOUN
story
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NOUN
scenario
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His co-star, singer Charlotte Church, praised the show's final, which attracted 15 million viewers within seven days, describing it as a "beautiful vignette of male tenderness and emotional expression".

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

Performance and illusion are recurring themes: A woman is sawed in half in a depiction of classic stagecraft; elsewhere a juggler manipulates ovoids that each contain an everyday vignette.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

“Our results here show that, for the same client vignette, AI advisers recommend safer portfolios than human advisers and that … scenario cues, not adviser idiosyncrasies, drive the difference.”

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2025

In the film’s final vignette, the viewer comes to understand that Gladys has no true motive.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2025

This vignette shows that even belonging to the same professional club as a writer is no protection against her curse of knowledge.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Alternating with these vignettes are lengthy excerpts from M’s bohemian heyday of 2023—three journals and a short screenplay.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

The finished product was more like a compilation of shot-for-shot music video and live performance recreations, stitched together with vignettes depicting a tepid version of Jackson’s real, tumultuous life.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026

There will be a nod to the 250th celebrations with historical "vignettes" between bouts, Axios reported, and there will also be military bands, a US military flyover and parachute display and a 10-minute fireworks finale.

From Barron's ● Jun. 14, 2026

“Trainspotting” doesn’t require a plot; like its source novel by Irvine Welsh, it’s a series of deeply observed vignettes or sketches.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

It’s funny the way I remember my time in France: little vignettes, discombobulated, a narrative drifting along an ocean, a series of scenes that meant nothing until they meant something.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

His grand themes are all there: a two-zone transfer is a bus ticket, sure — but also passage between realms of Black and white; haves and have-nots; harshly lit reality and vignetted dreams.

From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2022

As such, “Booth” has the feel of an oft-repeated family legend — vignetted at the edges, full of portents, omens and mysterious reversals of fate.

From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2022

The second filter vignetted around the subject to make them fit in the brandy snifter.

From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2022

Its political admirals, mercilessly vignetted by Larrabee, were boneheads or worse.

From Time Magazine Archive

The “process man” and the clever manipulator on the plates, will do the rest, producing pictures vignetted, if desired, as overleaf.

From The Art of Illustration 2nd ed. by Henry Blackburn

We sent the picture above to Sony, and Rob Brennan, Product Technology Manager at Sony, told The Verge that “Just from this picture alone, this amount of vignetting is within acceptable tolerances.”

From The Verge ● Aug. 4, 2022

Also, there’s some vignetting in the corners and along sections of the edges of my M9 review unit.

From The Verge ● Aug. 4, 2022

Specifically, Lodi notes that they can cause issues such as blurring, distortion, and vignetting.

From Slate ● May 25, 2018

One last downside: In certain photos, when I adjusted the overall contrast in Photoshop later, I noticed some vignetting — darkened areas at the corners.

From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2012

The illustration is much relieved by vignetting and leaving out: almost the only chance for effect that the artist has by the screened process.

From The Art of Illustration 2nd ed. by Henry Blackburn




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