foreshortening
- present participle of foreshorten.
Example Sentences
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At Santa Croce, the world's largest Franciscan church, Giotto's frescoes bear witness to his innovations, including modern spatial techniques such as foreshortening and human figures imparted with a fleshy weightiness.
From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026
The paintings are often flawed, with problems of composition and foreshortening.
From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2020
As we grow older we are less likely to be seduced by fanciful ideas of what our foreshortening future might have to offer.
From The Guardian • Mar. 15, 2020
Lucy needs to make sense of her past, render it communicable, but she’s weary of the violent foreshortening on which narrative depends.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 30, 2019
They kneeled between the frescoed walls, where some important-looking saints with blue haloes were standing on tiptoe to avoid foreshortening, and the gay paints of the stained-glass window poured upon their heads.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
