Example sentences for: flatness

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

  • In The Muse , however, the masochism feels a little too reflexive, and the picture's flatness gets flatter by the minute.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • What keeps his work from becoming campily oppressive (like the last, dreadful Batman picture) is his respect for the untranscendent flatness of ordinary life.

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


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