flatness
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Carefully is a generous term here—the process is more like arranging a raw chicken on a baking pan for maximum flatness.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026
To these students, who perceive A.I.’s banal flatness as a hallmark of good style, my new essays are not acceptable.
From Slate • Mar. 20, 2026
I feel like the movie is unfairly criticized for the flatness of the female characters or the actresses' performances, and I think those are the performances that give the movie its humanity.
From Salon • Apr. 14, 2025
Do you not have a problem with the professionally lighted flatness of the look and color palette?
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2024
That’s where the Augurs have left me, in this salt-white flatness that stretches for hundreds of miles, marked by nothing but angry black cracks and the occasional gnarled Jack tree.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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