Sample sentences for CHIAROSCURO

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art: a painting technique that skillfully contrasts light and shadow

Rembrandt is known for strong chiaroscuro effects.

Art and Archaeology is murkier and more velvety than last year, and filled with impasto and chiaroscuro.
Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
They matched the chiaroscuro designs on the brick wall.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
The Italians call this chiaroscuro.
Libba Bray -- A Great and Terrible Beauty
Chiaroscuro, she thought.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Bones
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.
James Hilton -- Lost Horizon
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.
William Faulkner -- Light in August
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.
George Eliot -- The Mill on the Floss
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.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
We're each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion fighting to emerge into something solid, something real.
Libba Bray -- A Great and Terrible Beauty
Inside the vestibule at the top of the stairs stood the chiaroscuro figure of a man.
David Wroblewski -- The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
A dark tonality, great chiaroscuro.
Margaret Atwood -- Oryx and Crake
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.
William Faulkner -- Light in August
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.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice

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