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chiaroscuro
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  • Chiaroscuro, she thought.†  (source)
  • They matched the chiaroscuro designs on the brick wall.†  (source)
  • The Italians call this chiaroscuro.†  (source)
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  • And now as I approached closer to the front door I saw the two of them pressed together, defined in obscure relief against the pink hallway where a dangling forty-watt lightbulb, nearly engulfed by a cloud of fluttering moths, cast its palsied chiaroscuro.†  (source)
    chiaroscuro = a painting technique that skillfully contrasts light and shadow
  • It seemed to him that he could see the yellow day opening peacefully on before him, like a corridor, an arras, into a still chiaroscuro without urgency.†  (source)
  • On one of these sat a small, pale, and wrinkled person, motionlessly shadowed and yielding an effect as of some fading, antique portrait in chiaroscuro.†  (source)
  • Not that Mr. Wakem had not other sons beside Philip; but toward them he held only a chiaroscuro parentage, and provided for them in a grade of life duly beneath his own.†  (source)
  • Art and Archaeology is murkier and more velvety than last year, and filled with impasto and chiaroscuro.†  (source)
  • We're each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion fighting to emerge into something solid, something real.†  (source)
  • I halted and stood quite still as they plunged toward each other through the chiaroscuro of dimly trembling, leafy light, and I heard the sobbing sounds that Sophie made just before they collided and embraced.†  (source)
  • It was hot; heat quivered up from the asphalt, giving to the familiar buildings about the square a nimbus quality, a quality of living and palpitant chiaroscuro.†  (source)
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