vignettein a sentence
vignette as in: performed a vignette from
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It was not so much a biography as a series of vignettes from her life.vignettes = brief episodes
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When the photo of the young woman who was me was snapped, I still called myself a poet, though I'd been writing stories since grammar school. I'd gravitated back to fiction while in the Iowa poetry workshop. Poetry, as it was taught at Iowa, was a house of cards, a tower of ideas, but I can't communicate an idea except through a story. The woman I am in the photo was working on a series of vignettes, little by little, along with her poetry. (source)vignettes = a brief bit of writing -- often meant to be representative of a larger work
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These brief vignettes were told from the point of view of 2112's anonymous protagonist.† (source)
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In it were vignettes, poems and stories.† (source)
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They were pictures of lovers in lonely parks, with vignettes of hearts pierced with arrows and golden ribbons held by doves.† (source)
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So they had gone at their subjects with metronomes, serpents, Brechtian vignettes at midnight, surgical removal of certain glands, magic-lantern hallucinations, new drugs, threats recited over hidden loudspeakers, hypnotism, clocks that ran backward, and faces.† (source)
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Dark vignettes of wood went by to right and left.† (source)
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Miss Homer sparkled with wit and vivacity as Nell Gywn; she was dramatic as Queen Isabella of Spain; her Josephine was a delightful vignette; and her Lady Emma Hamilton was a poignant bit of acting.† (source)
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I saw at once that the peculiarities of the design, of the vignetting, and of the frame, must have instantly dispelled such idea—must have prevented even its momentary entertainment.† (source)
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And, indeed, there are many others which look best when seen in this way, and I can call to mind vignettes of housetops with surmounting steeples in quite another category of art than those formed by the dreary streets of Combray.† (source)
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Ask Shameeka World Civ: questions at end of Chapter 9 G & T: none French: pour demain, une vignette culturelle Biology: none Tuesday Night Granmère says Tina Hakim Baba sounds like a much better friend for me than Lilly Moscovitz.† (source)
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The words in these introductory pages connected themselves with the succeeding vignettes, and gave significance to the rock standing up alone in a sea of billow and spray; to the broken boat stranded on a desolate coast; to the cold and ghastly moon glancing through bars of cloud at a wreck just sinking.† (source)
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In the final vignette of their act, they actually would kiss in midair, pausing, almost hovering as they swooped past one another.† (source)
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In the Council of Ministers the question was agitated whether vignettes representing slack-rope performances, which adorned Franconi's advertising posters, and which attracted throngs of street urchins, should be tolerated.† (source)
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But of all that Abigail wrote of life en famille in the house at Auteuil, perhaps the most memorable vignette was in a letter to her niece Lucy Cranch, dated January 5, 1785.† (source)
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In the vignettes and other embellishments of some ancient books you will at times meet with very curious touches at the whale, where all manner of spouts, jets d'eau, hot springs and cold, Saratoga and Baden-Baden, come bubbling up from his unexhausted brain.† (source)
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