Example sentences for: flatness

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

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

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

  • The most striking feature of Santo da Serra is its flatness; it may not be in the league of Paúl da Serra, but it is still large enough to accommodate a 27-hole golf course (see page 82).

  • 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.

  • 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.


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