(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.
Panorama
Definition:
(n.) A complete view in every direction.
(n.) A picture presenting a view of objects in every direction, as from a central point.
(n.) A picture representing scenes too extended to be beheld at once, and so exhibited a part at a time, by being unrolled, and made to pass continuously before the spectator.
Example Sentences:
(1) Panorama is the lynchpin of the BBC’s current affairs output and its track record is second to none in breaking big and important stories in the best traditions of investigative journalism.
(2) Mo Farah must clear air quickly with Alberto Salazar over doping claims Read more Farah intends to speak to his coach, Alberto Salazar, in the next day or so about the serious doping allegations made by Panorama .
(3) Sources close to one of the charities in the film said they had received a letter from Matchlight, the independent production company behind the Panorama film, in the past week confirming that the show would go ahead.
(4) The epidemic of loneliness and isolation that is spreading through the older population is not confined to people waiting at home for the next visit from a homecare worker, but can be just as acute for the older person waiting in their care home room for the weekly visit from relatives, or even just from a staff member, as was distressingly illustrated by another Panorama exposé this week.
(5) Balls had forced Osborne to answer a Commons urgent question two weeks after the Guardian and Panorama reported on the files obtained in 2008 by the former bank employee Hervé Falciani.
(6) But grants are not given for panoramas alone, and Cumbria's premiere producing theatre has had to work furiously to retain its £604,067 funding this time around.
(7) Allen Jewhurst, who has produced documentaries for BBC TV's Panorama , said that, with more than a billion Catholics worldwide, interest in the story is huge.
(8) GSK is also embroiled in a similar scandal in Poland after a whistleblower, Jarek Wisniewiski, told the BBC's Panorama programme that company representatives paid doctors to boost prescriptions.
(9) They added: "We can confirm that there has been a breach of data protection at an independent production company working with the BBC on a Panorama investigation as a result of unauthorised disclosure by a former researcher on the production team, in breach of her obligation of confidentiality.
(10) While everyone waits for Salazar to hit back at the Panorama claims – a fierce and comprehensive response is expected in the next couple of days – there is at least one thing that all sides can agree on: what Black calls “genius” of the coach has turned Farah into a world beater.
(11) Lewis told the Panorama show: “The damage [the alleged entrapment has] caused, the damage to people’s livelihoods, the amount of people sent to prison – it’s much, much bigger, far more serious, than phone hacking ever was.” On Thursday morning, Lewis told the Guardian how people could be swayed by the kind of entrapment alleged to have been carried out by Mahmood: “All human beings have a price.
(12) The officer was selling a story to Maz.” Mahmood insists he has never bought stories from police officers, but Panorama has been told that evidence suggesting that a number of tabloid journalists could be paying police officers should have led to a full-scale inquiry – and did not.
(13) "We were there to pay our last respects to our friend when this person angrily told me that I will face the consequences for appearing on Panorama," he said.
(14) The investigation was run by the producer Meirion Jones and MacKean, both of whom have co-operated with the Panorama's programme on the BBC's inner workings.
(15) Hall defended the BBC's recent controversial Panorama programme to the committee, in which undercover reporter John Sweeney travelled to North Korea with a group of students from the London School of Economics.
(16) Regarding the claim that the manner in which the nine people killed was fundamental to the accuracy of the Panorama documentary, the BBC Trust agreed that because of the lack of clear video footage of anyone being shot, details from the preliminary autopsy reports would have "given a broader picture and added to the programme's description of how the activists died".
(17) Mercer was caught in a sting by journalist Daniel Foggo, leading to reports by BBC Panorama and the Daily Telegraph.
(18) But a BBC Panorama screened on the eve of the 2018 World Cup vote alleged a secret list of payments that showed at least $100m had been paid out.
(19) The 360-degree panorama takes in the remote and wild mountains of the Knoydart peninsula, Skye, and the peaks of Kintail to the north.
(20) I also was with the team and John Stiner at the altitude camp he spoke about in Park City, and believe his report as well.” In the BBC Panorama documentary Kara Goucher alleged Salazar had coached Rupp to get a therapeutic use exemption for an intravenous drip before the 2011 World Championships.