Example sentences for: cinematic

How can you use “cinematic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • And indeed, there's something almost cinematic in the similar poses of the dancers as they adjust their shoes, like Eadweard Muybridge's freeze frames of bodies in motion, with which Degas was familiar.

  • To this end, Culturebox hereby inaugurates the Culturebox Anti-Fall-Preview: an admittedly unscientific list of the musts-to-avoid in this fall's cinematic, literary, theatrical, and sartorial seasons.

  • The novel unfolds in the cinematic style that Didion has made her own: flashbacks, flash-forwards, crosscuts, staccato bursts of dialogue, now and then "a montage, music over."

  • Nossiter's script about an affair between a homeless man (David Suchet) and a woman (Lisa Harrow) who mistakes him for a British filmmaker is called "elegant" (Daphne Merkin, The New Yorker ), and Suchet is said to give "a virtuoso turn" (John Anderson, the Los Angeles Times ). Dissenting, the New York Times ' Stephen Holden calls the film a formulaic, "overly schematic exercise in cinematic hide-and-seek."

  • T he Mummy is a debauchery but not a true defilement: Mummy movies don't constitute an especially glorious cinematic legacy.


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