nightscape

[nahyt-skeyp]

noun

1. a scene viewed at night, especially as represented in art.

Example Sentences

That’s the night I took the photo that ran on New York magazine’s homepage when he won: He’s in Queens at night, a halal cart in the background, he’s moving through this blurry New York nightscape with a smile on his face.

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The difference is that while Sinatra’s voice remains omnipresent in modern life, “the ephemeral magic of Johnny Carson, who loomed just as large and swung just as mightily … no longer hums and flickers into nightscape ambiance.”

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On his major-label debut, the rapper/singer’s gauzy, melodic flow plays peek-a-boo over nightscape beats, as if shrouded by a thin balcony curtain overlooking a sleeping city.

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Prowling the outskirts of Mashhad on his motorcycle, Saeed is very much the dark prince of this city, with Martin Dirkov’s hypnotic drone of a score surging on the soundtrack and the brilliant nightscape of Mashhad shimmering behind him.

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He’d probably say something like, “Make my day,” except that Gotham seems stuck in a perpetual, rain-streaked nightscape.

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