Example Sentences

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It was her successor, Banfield, who made waves with her coverage of the Turner case—by reading the letter from the victim aloud on CNN, in a segment preceded by trigger warnings about the letter’s graphicness.

From Slate • Oct. 13, 2016

I loved the roughness of his hand, but I also really liked the graphicness and the abstractness of the cards.

From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2011

Psycho was filmed in black and white - unusual for Hitchcock by that stage of his career - partly to cut costs, but also to manage the graphicness of this scene.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2010

Mr Winslow’s grammar was not of the best, and his sentences generally had a smack of the briny about them, which, however, did not detract from their graphicness.

From From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New by Stables, Gordon

"An oratorical eel," SAUNDERSON, later in sitting, likened Member for West Belfast to; charming simile, with just that mixture of graphicness and incongruity that only Irish wit could flash upon.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 27, 1892 by Various