Example sentences for: foreshortened

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

  • Mantegna has a touching Madonna, but his true masterpiece here is the Dead Christ, achieving a gripping emotional effect with its foreshortened perspective.

  • Oh, partly because the stock market was a Monday-Tuesday story--a mountain that, from the foreshortened perspective of TV producers, loomed smaller at week's end than nearby hills; and partly because the Washington commentariat will always prefer political stories to financial ones (perhaps sensing that their views on the latter are especially baseless).

  • In churches and palaces around his native Venice, and then, as his fame spread, as far afield as Dresden and Madrid, Tiepolo was without peer in executing the tricks that make for a believable scene in the heavens: the figures foreshortened as if seen from below, the sturdy cloudbanks, the shades of pink and blue that draw the eye toward the infinite.


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