Example sentences for: grainy

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

  • You've seen this sort of picture before: People get drunk and drag skeletons out of closets, and the tension between the formal dinner party rituals and the truths that simmer beneath the surface give way to a Walpurgisnacht . The anti-patriarchal content is fairly routine, but you should see the movie anyway because the director, Thomas Vinterberg, is a great, hypersensitive filmmaker whose edgy, grainy, caught-on-the-fly camerawork seems to make the very celluloid shiver with rage.

  • Then there's the added insult to untreated ER waiting-room injury of having to watch these Satanic sentimental TV spots for various HMOs, featuring grainy handheld pseudo-documentary sepia-tone footage of some hypothetical multi-ethnic customer base (elderly black grandmothers on rocking chairs with blankets draped over their knees and beaming Asian-American 6-year-olds on swing sets always seem to make an appearance) while muted piano music plays and some studio-musician faux-gospel vocalist breathily intones the company slogan/musical sound bite, informing us all "(Insert Name of HMO here) ...

  • The Clinton campaign converts a legal restriction into a political virtue, marrying Dole to the grainy black-and-white visage of America's most unpopular politician.

  • The film ends with the camera zooming toward Johnson's eye until the screen becomes more and more grainy and ultimately black, as if to suggest that settling the big questions of who Bumpy Johnson really was and what he meant to Harlem may be beyond its range.

  • Leaving specimens in AEC for up to 20 minutes only tended to result in a pinkish blush to tissues and not the 'grainy' background obtained with DAB.


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