Sample Sentences forvignette (auto-selected)
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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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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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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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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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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On his death, the press recalled the forgotten incident of the Poetic Festival and reprinted the sonnet with a Modernist vignette of fleshy maidens and gold cornucopias, and the guardian angels of poetry took advantage of the opportunity to clarify matters: the sonnet seemed so bad to the younger generation that no one could doubt any longer that it had, in fact, been composed by the dead Chinese.† (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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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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I must now set down a brief vignette, which I have tried to refashion from the outpouring of Sophie's memories as she talked to me that summer weekend.† (source)
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Dark vignettes of wood went by to right and left.† (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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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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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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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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