period piece

NOUN
  1. any work of art whose special value lies in its evocation of a historical period
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How To Use period piece In A Sentence

  • Rooms are fabulously furnished with period pieces and the service is exemplary. Times, Sunday Times
  • At that time it was a contemporary drama; now it is a period piece, and the transition is managed with superlative intelligence.
  • His new film, House of Flying Daggers, is another martial arts period piece, and reunites the director with his ‘Hero’ star, Ziyi Zhang.
  • The actor admits there is more than one obstacle to starring in the period piece being shot on a sprawling ranch about 100 km west of Calgary.
  • It's also a departure, his first period piece and his first film adapted from pre-existing material.
  • Minotaur is actually a period piece about Theseus (although he’s called “Theo”), the island of Minos, and the legendary labyrinth. Mad Dog Movies « Review: Minotaur
  • Its a story of the French Revolution, and a period piece full of courtly intrigue and a love story.
  • Yet perhaps Redford's biggest fear was what he called "proclamation talk" - the tendency for actors in a period piece to "talk like they're reading off a piece of parchment. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • Rooms are fabulously furnished with period pieces and the service is exemplary. Times, Sunday Times
  • Five years ago it would have been surfing the zeitgeist; now it looks like a quaint period piece from last century.
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