vignette
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definition, delineation, depiction, description, picture, portrait, portraiture, portrayal, rendering, sketch
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The play's program features a little vignette about each member of the cast. The film is a series of vignettes about living with cancer.Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
Interspersed exhibits throughout the new museum will highlight vignettes of the African diaspora and influence in every pocket of American culture. — Savannah Eadens, The Courier-Journal, "Louisville will soon have a 'healing place' for black history at new museum on Main Street," 29 Aug. 2019 Shaker365 provides short video vignettes of the community as part of the city’s ongoing branding campaign, with recent spots on Verb Ballets, the Memorial Day Parade, Moreland Rising and City Fire Department mechanic Chuck Bates. — Thomas Jewell, cleveland.com, "Julie McGovern Voyzey takes over helm in Shaker Communications & Marketing," 5 Aug. 2019 In 2016, Lew announced that Hamilton would remain on the $10, and that a vignette of women, including Susan B. Anthony, would appear on the back of that currency. — al.com, "Trump didn’t delay release of Harriet Tubman $20, Obama-era officials say," 16 July 2019 Above all, Kahane’s libretto drove the piece, most of its 13 vignettes evoking the sterile and dehumanizing questionnaires that homeless people must negotiate in order to get a bed for the night. — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, "Grant Park Orchestra review: Kahane’s ‘Emergency Shelter’ gets a brilliant Midwest premiere," 6 July 2019 On the right side of their East Harwich store, furniture is set up in vignettes; to the left is rack after rack of women’s clothing, lightly used and in excellent condition. — Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, "Skip the T-shirt shops, already: Thrift(y) shopping on the Cape," 23 July 2019 Some are long enough to paint vignettes from the battle; others are splintered into short phrases, or even single words, distributed through the choir. — Allan Kozinn, WSJ, "‘Letters From Gettysburg’ by Avner Dorman Review: Singing a Soldier’s Story," 29 June 2019 The people in these vignettes feel ordinary, even if their experiences are far from prosaic. — The Atlantic, "What We’re Reading This Summer," 28 June 2019 Vivid, musical vignettes were the order of the evening at the Milwaukee Symphony’s Saturday performance at the Marcus Center's Uihlein Hall. — Elaine Schmidt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Asher Fisch leads Milwaukee Symphony in melodic program of Mahler, Britten and Foss," 22 Apr. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'vignette.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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