Example sentences for: flatness

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

  • A student at a prestigious prep school, the Rushmore Academy, Max travels amid décor that has a cartoon flatness of perspective and is painted in near luminous primary colors, with some added deep brown, green, crimson, and gold leaf to convey the institution's toniness.

  • Chief among these, in my view, is From the Viaduct, New York (1916), a picture of a billboard, a false front, a couple of roofs, a fence, and some people in the street that marches the eye up one side and down the other, seamlessly blending all his knowledge of light and shade, volume and flatness, geometry and the shapes of letters, human proportion and the American scene.

  • In the first half-hour, The Muse plays a little flatly, but that's not too troubling--artful flatness has always been a component of Brooks' genius.

  • Greenberg wanted to enlist Rothko in his own narrative of American painting moving irrevocably toward "flatness" and so-called "color-field" painting.

  • He was fascinated by the Japanese-print flatness bequeathed by the Impressionists; in Maid of the Mist, Niagara Falls (1915), he managed to cheat scale so much that the boat looks like a bathtub toy against the swirl of rocks and spume.


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