Vignette
noun
A short, well-defined story or explanation, sometimes used to explain a big concept or theme.
The author used several vignettes to demonstrate the protagonist's emotional progression.
Often appears as...
- character vignette
- descriptive vignette
noun
A small illustration or portrait photograph which fades into its background without a definite border.
Her profile picture is a vignette with a soft, dreamy background.
Often appears as...
- photographic vignette
- artistic vignette
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Technical
noun
A decorative design or small illustration used on the title page of a book or at the beginning or end of a chapter.
The book features a gorgeous rose vignette on its title page.
Often appears as...
- title page vignette
- chapter end vignette
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Technical
noun
A gentle gradient around the edges of an image or screen, typically used for aesthetics or to draw focus.
He added a vignette to the image to draw focus to the center.
Often appears as...
- digital vignette
- add a vignette
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A short, well-defined story or explanation, sometimes used to explain a big concept or theme.
The author used several vignettes to demonstrate the protagonist's emotional progression.
Often appears as...
- character vignette
- descriptive vignette
noun
A small illustration or portrait photograph which fades into its background without a definite border.
Her profile picture is a vignette with a soft, dreamy background.
Often appears as...
- photographic vignette
- artistic vignette
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A decorative design or small illustration used on the title page of a book or at the beginning or end of a chapter.
The book features a gorgeous rose vignette on its title page.
Often appears as...
- title page vignette
- chapter end vignette
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A gentle gradient around the edges of an image or screen, typically used for aesthetics or to draw focus.
He added a vignette to the image to draw focus to the center.
Often appears as...
- digital vignette
- add a vignette
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Story Device
Use 'vignette' to add depth to a larger narrative without detailing a full story.
The film's vignette about the soldier's childhood was moving.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Impact
'Vignette' often gives a glimpse into characters’ emotions or backgrounds.
Each vignette in the play revealed a different aspect of the hero's personality.
Pro Tip 3/3Brief and Evocative
Think of a 'vignette' as a brief yet vivid scene that leaves a lasting impression.
The writer crafted a poignant vignette to capture the villagers' daily lives.
Pro Tip 1/3Story Device
Use 'vignette' to add depth to a larger narrative without detailing a full story.
The film's vignette about the soldier's childhood was moving.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Impact
'Vignette' often gives a glimpse into characters’ emotions or backgrounds.
Each vignette in the play revealed a different aspect of the hero's personality.
Pro Tip 3/3Brief and Evocative
Think of a 'vignette' as a brief yet vivid scene that leaves a lasting impression.
The writer crafted a poignant vignette to capture the villagers' daily lives.
Pro Tip 1/3Story Device
Use 'vignette' to add depth to a larger narrative without detailing a full story.
The film's vignette about the soldier's childhood was moving.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Impact
'Vignette' often gives a glimpse into characters’ emotions or backgrounds.
Each vignette in the play revealed a different aspect of the hero's personality.
Pro Tip 3/3Brief and Evocative
Think of a 'vignette' as a brief yet vivid scene that leaves a lasting impression.
The writer crafted a poignant vignette to capture the villagers' daily lives.
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My Life As an Adventure...
so we thought we thought of you right away so I told him what had happened I said well you know I recently had a bad accident but I wanted the assignment right I wanted the job and I wanted to be a photographer and this was my these were little vignettes in to what it was like to be a photographer so I said well I'll tell you what can I get Frank's number let me just call him and I'll see
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Rob Forbes: Ways of...
industrial materials with a little bit of colors and animation and a nice little still life -- kind of unintended piece of design. And going a little closer, you get a different perspective. I find these little vignettes, these little accidental pieces of design, to be refreshing. They give me, I don't know,
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Quorum sensing: Bacteria...
that maybe we could make infection resistant catheters or stents or breathing tubes and then finally I'm just telling you one little vignette that's about Pseudomonas we work on lots of globally important pathogens in my lab and we're having similar success doing these kinds of strategies in other
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Why should you read “The...
this gathering at the mahjong table is the point of departure for a series of interconnected vignettes. The book itself is loosely structured to imitate the format of the Chinese game. Just as mahjong is played over four rounds with at least four hands each,
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Sir Martin Rees: Earth...
The plaque reads, "Albert Einstein lived here." And I'd like to end with a vignette, as it were, inspired by this image. We've been familiar for 40 years with this the fragile beauty of land, ocean and clouds, contrasted with the sterile moonscape
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Saving a Baby Orangutan,...
sure sometimes I just position in a vignette pack what you done on what might look a bit very stressful for her this but this is so much better for her in the long run just get out of that
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Remapping A Place: How...
to be at the top that scale is unnecessary what's more important is these stories of history described in these vignettes of experience and now these are here for all zuni's to learn
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What ocean microbes...
and it all starts with microbes. Now, I have two vignettes to share with you, and these are meant to be love stories to microbes. But I'll be honest that there's an aspect of it
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My Life As an Adventure...
to tell these little vignettes, these stories, and, or as I like to call them, learning curves, of what was actually happening on the expedition. So learning curve number one,
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Inge Missmahl brings...
learn tools to solve their family conflicts and gain some confidence in the future. And I would like to share one short vignette. One Hazara said to his Pashtun counselor,
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My Life As an Adventure...
so we thought we thought of you right away so I told him what had happened I said well you know I recently had a bad accident but I wanted the assignment right I wanted the job and I wanted to be a photographer and this was my these were little vignettes in to what it was like to be a photographer so I said well I'll tell you what can I get Frank's number let me just call him and I'll see
Video examples
Rob Forbes: Ways of...
industrial materials with a little bit of colors and animation and a nice little still life -- kind of unintended piece of design. And going a little closer, you get a different perspective. I find these little vignettes, these little accidental pieces of design, to be refreshing. They give me, I don't know,
Video examples
Quorum sensing: Bacteria...
that maybe we could make infection resistant catheters or stents or breathing tubes and then finally I'm just telling you one little vignette that's about Pseudomonas we work on lots of globally important pathogens in my lab and we're having similar success doing these kinds of strategies in other
Video examples
Why should you read “The...
this gathering at the mahjong table is the point of departure for a series of interconnected vignettes. The book itself is loosely structured to imitate the format of the Chinese game. Just as mahjong is played over four rounds with at least four hands each,
Video examples
Sir Martin Rees: Earth...
The plaque reads, "Albert Einstein lived here." And I'd like to end with a vignette, as it were, inspired by this image. We've been familiar for 40 years with this the fragile beauty of land, ocean and clouds, contrasted with the sterile moonscape
Video examples
Saving a Baby Orangutan,...
sure sometimes I just position in a vignette pack what you done on what might look a bit very stressful for her this but this is so much better for her in the long run just get out of that
Video examples
Remapping A Place: How...
to be at the top that scale is unnecessary what's more important is these stories of history described in these vignettes of experience and now these are here for all zuni's to learn
Video examples
What ocean microbes...
and it all starts with microbes. Now, I have two vignettes to share with you, and these are meant to be love stories to microbes. But I'll be honest that there's an aspect of it
Video examples
My Life As an Adventure...
to tell these little vignettes, these stories, and, or as I like to call them, learning curves, of what was actually happening on the expedition. So learning curve number one,
Video examples
Inge Missmahl brings...
learn tools to solve their family conflicts and gain some confidence in the future. And I would like to share one short vignette. One Hazara said to his Pashtun counselor,
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Sugar Ray Leonard
American Boxer
Boxing should focus on pitting champion versus champion - those are the fights that everyone wants to see. The sports also needs to work on developing new heroes and personalities. I'd like to see more vignettes on fighters, focusing on their lives, goals and stories. Boxers need to be larger than life.
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Tim O'Brien
American Author
The world comes at me that way - comes at me in clumps of stuff, sometimes little vignettes and sometimes whole stories. And then the rest is erased by the internal filter that erases things for the same reason you'd forget swatting a mosquito.
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Michael Pena
American Actor
The joy of 'Crash' was that it was all about the work. It was my first real part. Before that, it was a line here and there, maybe a scene. 'Crash' was five scenes, a beautiful arc, a little vignette of my own. It really meant something.
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Lance Archer
American Wrestler
The things that we have, the opportunities that we continue to do with the backstage vignettes, throwing guys into ceilings, trash cans, lockers, and everything I can find to put them in and through, that itself has been fun for me.
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David Cassidy
American Actor
When you cut your life into a film - 90-some minutes of film - you end up taking snapshots and vignettes of the highlights of it - marriage, divorce, death, success, fame, loss. The up and the down and the up again.
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Richard Corliss
American Writer
A home movie of a fictional home life, an epic assembled from vignettes, 'Boyhood' shimmers with unforced reality. It shows how an ordinary life can be reflected in an extraordinary movie.
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Will Self
English Author
A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think autonomously for itself.
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Iliza Shlesinger
American Comedian
I'm a huge sketch comedy fan, and I think my love of sketch is reflected in my stand-up in that I do a lot of vignettes and voices and characters.
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Melissa Benoist
American Actress
Essentially, what I do on 'Supergirl' is I'm acting out comic vignettes. That is its own muscle to flex, and it is its own skill.
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Jacqueline Woodson
American Writer
Another Brooklyn' came to me in this kind of dreamlike series of vignettes.
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Sugar Ray Leonard
American Boxer
Boxing should focus on pitting champion versus champion - those are the fights that everyone wants to see. The sports also needs to work on developing new heroes and personalities. I'd like to see more vignettes on fighters, focusing on their lives, goals and stories. Boxers need to be larger than life.
Quote examples
Tim O'Brien
American Author
The world comes at me that way - comes at me in clumps of stuff, sometimes little vignettes and sometimes whole stories. And then the rest is erased by the internal filter that erases things for the same reason you'd forget swatting a mosquito.
Quote examples
Michael Pena
American Actor
The joy of 'Crash' was that it was all about the work. It was my first real part. Before that, it was a line here and there, maybe a scene. 'Crash' was five scenes, a beautiful arc, a little vignette of my own. It really meant something.
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Lance Archer
American Wrestler
The things that we have, the opportunities that we continue to do with the backstage vignettes, throwing guys into ceilings, trash cans, lockers, and everything I can find to put them in and through, that itself has been fun for me.
Quote examples
David Cassidy
American Actor
When you cut your life into a film - 90-some minutes of film - you end up taking snapshots and vignettes of the highlights of it - marriage, divorce, death, success, fame, loss. The up and the down and the up again.
Quote examples
Richard Corliss
American Writer
A home movie of a fictional home life, an epic assembled from vignettes, 'Boyhood' shimmers with unforced reality. It shows how an ordinary life can be reflected in an extraordinary movie.
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Will Self
English Author
A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think autonomously for itself.
Quote examples
Iliza Shlesinger
American Comedian
I'm a huge sketch comedy fan, and I think my love of sketch is reflected in my stand-up in that I do a lot of vignettes and voices and characters.
Quote examples
Melissa Benoist
American Actress
Essentially, what I do on 'Supergirl' is I'm acting out comic vignettes. That is its own muscle to flex, and it is its own skill.
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Jacqueline Woodson
American Writer
Another Brooklyn' came to me in this kind of dreamlike series of vignettes.
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