moving picture
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Apparently, we’re to draw some insightful connection between these two views of the city — one in static paint on canvas and the other in a moving picture shot a couple decades later.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2022
Kneading, waiting, rising and resting serve as metaphors for the healing of a father-daughter relationship in this gently moving picture book by a muralist who works with families impacted by incarceration.
From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2021
There is a strong resemblance between the promises of resurrection via VR and the rhetoric that heralded the invention of other once-new technologies like the moving picture.
From Slate • May 27, 2020
At this point in his career, he apparently feels he has to push the boundaries of everything the moving picture format can do and be.
From The Verge • Oct. 8, 2019
You can see the Pennines all around the city of Stockport, green and bare with fast-moving stripes of cloud and sunlight gliding overhead like a Technicolor moving picture.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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