log line
- a variation of logline.
Example Sentences
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Large language models can spew Mississippi Rivers of data and text, but they struggle to write a log line for a 120-page screenplay, a subtitle for a book, or a few lines of poetry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Cue the wizened locals ready to fleece them, the natural and man-made catastrophes, and you have all the makings of a bad sitcom, with Monocle meets Fawlty Towers as the log line.
From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2023
It's a hard one to give a log line about.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2023
If you’ve read a single log line for the film or have a familiarity with the real events, you know the twist, or, rather, the conceit at play here.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 22, 2021
These primitive methods survive in the rosary, the sailor’s log line with its knots or the knotted handkerchief which serves as a simple memorandum.
From Books Before Typography A Primer of Information About the Invention of the Alphabet and the History of Book-Making up to the Invention of Movable Types Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #49 by Hamilton, Frederick W. (Frederick William)
