chiaroscuroin a sentence
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Rembrandt is known for strong chiaroscuro effects.
chiaroscuro = a painting technique that skillfully contrasts light and shadow
- Inside the vestibule at the top of the stairs stood the chiaroscuro figure of a man.† (source)
- A dark tonality, great chiaroscuro.† (source)
- Chiaroscuro, she thought.† (source)
- The Italians call this chiaroscuro.† (source)
- They matched the chiaroscuro designs on the brick wall.† (source)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
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- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
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