What is "cinematic"

Usage examples of "cinematic".

Style will always convince cinematic purists that the surfaces they admire contain depth, and that clear shortcomings are really subtle virtues in disguise.

These less than cinematic flames were a sour muddy orange as dark as bloodied tongues, and out of the many mouths of the blaze spewed a vomitus of greasy black smoke.

He proceeded to explain the cinematic process in detail as Nemo sat in even greater stupefication, smiling dumbly every so often and nodding, as if he himself had often thought of doing it in similar fashion.

Before I continue I should tell you that we attached to our telelens a cinematic spectroscope, the better to ascertain changes of elements taking place within the corona.

As always with a Kathryn Bigelow film, I was, at times, wowed by her cinematic skill.

Whether those good souls, talented and untalented alike, wended their way to Hollywood via the dustjacketed word, the newspaper essay, the legitimate stage, the regional theater, or from some rural or foreign cinematic venue, there was a common tongue spoken: Art.

Nevertheless, the past few years have introduced millions of people to traditional fantasy through the cinematic blockbusters ofHarry Potter andThe Lord of the Rings .

She held the smoke in and then turned in cinematic profile and let it out.

It would have been perfectly at home in a cheap 1950s horror film, except that it smelled atrocious and its contorted, bent limbs were possessed of a horrid jerking motion that was beyond the reach of cheap cinematic artifice.

Virtual reality was about to arrive on African shores in all its manifestations, diagnostic, cinematic, therapeutic, analytic.

What I would like to preserve here is a kind of high-speed cinematic reel-record of what the campaign was like at the time, not what the whole thing boiled down to or how it fits into history.

Singapore and lived a life almost as cinematic as that of his famous creationhe was a pearl fisher, gold prospector, rubber planter, tin miner, fairground hand and even a policeman before success as a writer turned him into one of the top-selling authors of his times.

A sociopathic and mentally retarded Lance Corporal at Leaven-worth, strapped down with electrode appliques and headset-recorder, was able to report that the thing apparently opens with an engaging and high-quality cinematic shot of a veiled woman going through a large building's revolving doors and catching a glimpse of someone else in the revolving doors, somebody the sight of whom makes her veil billow, before the subject's mental and spiritual energies abruptly declined to a point where even near-lethal voltages through the electrodes couldn't divert his attention from the Entertainment.

Toss in Imposters, Dick's account of a human scientist hunted by aliens, one of whom has usurped his place, a film that several A-list scriptwriters tried unsuccessfully to doctor and which since has been yanked from distribution, and you will gather that Dick's immediate cinematic future is to consist of megablasts of brightly hued, hack-writer-generated meadow muffin, augmented by great glorioso dollops of Flatulaphonic sound, aimed at an undiscerning popcorn- feeding subspecies that can be found grazing the multiplexes with its young, living proof that Dick's first major theme still has relevance in contemporary society.

Thus it was when I purchased a package of Junior Mints prior to exposing myself to the cinematic potentials of Lost Souls, I did so with the idea of lowering my analytic capacity to that of a mentally challenged person for whom English was a second language.