cinematically
Americanadverb
Other Word Forms
- uncinematically adverb
Example Sentences
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“Out of Plain Sight” strives to be more cinematically alive than the standard talking-head-laden documentary.
From Los Angeles Times
Written and directed by Scott Cooper from Warren Zanes’s 2023 book, the film sets out to capture two states of mind that are tricky to depict cinematically: depression and creativity.
Beginning in the 1920s, oil burst cinematically out of the ground at wells across the coastal South Bay and even into the Long Beach harbor.
From Los Angeles Times
“Good News Mass,” which seems inspired by Leonard Bernstein’s eclectic “Mass,” written for the opening of the Kennedy Center in 1971, could, like it, effectively expand its presentation theatrically and choreographically rather than cinematically.
From Los Angeles Times
As the waves crashed cinematically on the rocks below, I thought that if we couldn’t get along in such a dreamy setting, then maybe it was an indication that we shouldn’t be together.
From Los Angeles Times
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