video vérité

[ ver-i-tey; French vey-ree-tey ]

/ ˌvɛr ɪˈteɪ; French veɪ riˈteɪ /

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noun Television.

a technique, derived from cinéma vérité, in which people in real life are portrayed as they actually are without rehearsal.

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Origin of video vérité

First recorded in 1965–70; see origin at cinéma vérité

Words nearby video vérité

videotape, videotape recorder, video telephony, videotex, videotext, video vérité, vide post, vide supra, vidette, vide ut supra, Videvdat

How to use video vérité in a sentence

In the first episode, an officer is shown video of himself shooting and killing a man.
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That article noted that the F-35 does not currently have the ability to down-link live video to ground troops,.
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Therefore, it is not possible for any F-35 schedule to include a video data link or infrared pointer at this point.
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Nor does the jet have the ability to capture high-definition video, utilize an infra-red pointer.
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I've seen video of that satirical guide to SXSW in 1998 where you asked a bunch of bands odd questions.
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Pinhead video-cameras cost less than a good restaurant dinner these days, so they're showing up everywhere.
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This kid -- his handle was Kameraspie -- had sent me an even better video this time around.
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"Oh my dear sweet Buddha," I said looking at the screen as it faded to black, starting the video again.
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He turned his screen around so that I could see the video feed from the social studies classroom.
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She was breaking up the video into billions of pieces and hiding each of them in a normal message to a DNS server.
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