(n.) A pictorial view which is extended circularly, so that the spectator is surrounded by the objects represented as by things in nature. The realistic effect is increased by putting, in the space between the spectator and the picture, things adapted to the scene represented, and in some places only parts of these objects, the completion of them being carried out pictorially.
Example Sentences:
(1) She and Gaskill took their style to Stratford for Richard III (with Christopher Plummer, 1961), set on a wooden floor and backed by a sinister metal grille, and staged the British premiere of Brecht’s Baal (1963), framing Peter O’Toole in a cyclorama enclosing beautifully stylised bare trees and gappy buildings.
Diorama
Definition:
(n.) A mode of scenic representation, invented by Daguerre and Bouton, in which a painting is seen from a distance through a large opening. By a combination of transparent and opaque painting, and of transmitted and reflected light, and by contrivances such as screens and shutters, much diversity of scenic effect is produced.
(n.) A building used for such an exhibition.
Example Sentences:
(1) She was perhaps surprised to hear that the whole scheme of the thing came to Gaiman when, severely jet-lagged and sleep-deprived on a stopover in Reykjavik, he saw the tourist centre's diorama of Leif Erikson's voyage to America.
(2) Seven boa constrictors, 4 pythons, and 4 anacondas from the same diorama died during the ensuing 10 weeks.
(3) Along with an interactive diorama-style Everest that lets you peer into all its nooks and crevasses, there are also interactive areas at famous parts of the climb.
(4) (He evoked his detention at last year’s Venice Biennale, via uncanny scaled-down dioramas of his prison cell.)
(5) Photograph: Georgeorwellnovels.com A series of dioramas depicting scenes from Buddha’s life and images from Buddhist hell, some extremely gruesome, filled the shell.
(6) Most countries’ exhibitions feel like a cross between a Waitrose advert and a travel agents’ trade fair – immersive multimedia dioramas of bountiful produce and spectacular scenery, dotted with stalls selling craft trinkets and samples of cheese.
(7) Amebic cysts were recovered from turtle and alligator fecal samples taken from a central "swamp," or reservoir, draining the dioramas, water that is returned to the snake display areas after passage through a biological sand-gravel filter and ultraviolet radiation exposure.
(8) In the General Motors pavilion, the spirit of his unstoppable highway-building urge was shown in a series of dioramas, depicting how "machines of tomorrow" would clear the way for man to exist on the south pole, under the sea, in the desert and deep in the jungle.
(9) The fearful scenario is that Sony will use the VR as a peripheral, like a Playstation Eye or Kinect,” says designer and artist Daniël Ernst who has created a series of virtual dioramas for Oculus Rift, including Shoe Box and the forthcoming Great Gottlie.
(10) And then, in the summer of 1998, sleepless and awake-dreaming during a stopover in Reykjavik, I looked down at a tourist diorama of the travels of Leif Erikson , thought: "I wonder if they brought their gods with them, when they went to America?"
(11) Despite the erroneous claim to be a natural history museum, the displays of fossils, including casts of many famous examples such as an archaeopteryx and Lucy the Australopithecine soon give way to expensively mounted dioramas telling the biblical story of creation.
(12) Now that Lego have confirmed they will no longer partner with Shell, here are a few of our reflections on how we built enough pressure to topple the deal: Be disruptive and cheeky In our viral video watched by over 6m people , an Arctic Lego diorama and all its cute inhabitants and animals, drown in oil.
(13) This presentation of news as entertainment continued under Tussaud's sons and grandsons, who placed famous figures in dramatic historical dioramas.
(14) The parasite was also found in the stool of a giant Burmese python (Python molurus bivittatus) that died in the adjacent diorama and in the tissues of a blue-tongued skink (Tiliqua scincoides), separately housed, that died of enteritis during this period.
(15) An epizootic of reptilian amebiasis seems to have caused the death of 15 to 16 large and valuable captive snakes (boas, pythons, and anacondas) occupying one of 5 large display dioramas in the Steinhart Aquarium of the California Academy of Science, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.
(16) The characters’ rich, angst-ridden inner lives made them relatable in a way that has simply never been possible in Thrones’ pretty-diorama fantasy.
(17) Every Christmas for over half a century, the park hosted a lifesize nativity display of the birth of Jesus, filling a block with a 14-scene diorama which included crib, wise men and livestock.
(18) While our diorama is a tribute to how much we love the creativity and imagination that Lego fosters, the film is unambiguous that the protection of the Arctic, and our children's future, is at odds with its Shell partnership.