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foreshorten

VERB
  1. reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
    The manuscript must be shortened
  2. shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth

How To Use foreshorten In A Sentence

  • In a word, they discovered the laws of chiaroscuro, and with them the art of foreshortening, which is, in fact, perspective applied to the human figure. Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
  • A long lens has an quality called "foreshortening" making objects in the frame seem a lot closer together looking foreground toward background than they really are. LEVERAGE: Production Days 1&2
  • This brilliant and learned student of structures and communities treats scientific ideas as the creations of disembodied intellects, and he foreshortens the development of such ancient subjects as geology and biology.
  • A letting void period should run from the present time as nothing in the previous twelve months letting period will serve to foreshorten the future period needed to let.
  • Eighty percent of all the bombs in World War II fell in the last ten months of the war during which the British, for instance, decided to bomb residential areas with the argument that this would foreshorten the war.
  • Indeed, in this implicit foreshortening of it, we were told that ‘America's unipolar moment will not last long ’.
  • In proportion to the amount of actual projection from the background, of course the necessity diminishes for that kind of foreshortening which is obtained by delineation. Wood-Carving Design and Workmanship
  • My use of a telephoto lens foreshortens the space between the buildings, enhancing the abstract effect by ‘flattening’ the bricks against the glass.
  • This becomes complicated and more difficult to arrange when we admit into our design anything resembling what painters call foreshortening, and the awkwardness is felt even in the placing of such a small thing as an apple-leaf, which may be treated in such a way that the intention of the drawing is entirely lost in the confusion which arises between the inferred and the actual projection. Wood-Carving Design and Workmanship
  • She was actually foreshortening, as skilled portrait painters do.
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