Vignette

Definition

vignette /vÇn'jet/ n ၁။ အက်ဥ္းဖြဲ႕ဆိုထားေသာစာမြန္။ a series of charming vignettes of Edwardian life. ၂။ (က) စာအုပ္တြင္ အခန္းအစ (သို႔) အဆံုးစာမ်က္ႏွာပါ အမြမ္းပံု။ (ခ) မ်ဥ္းေၾကာင္းျဖင့္ေဘာင္မခတ္ဘဲအလင္းအေမွာင္ မႈန္း၍ ကလနားသတ္ထားေသာပံု။

Examples

1. ‘As Sharpe postpones the moment when he has to confront his brother with the news that could devastate their business
2. his mind wanders off into evocative vignettes of his life so far.’
3. ‘Each story is a brief vignette that reveals the athletes' successes and failures
4. the paths they took to climb to the top
5. and the realizations they had along the way.’
6. ‘The interview includes ten vignettes describing classroom situations which challenge or threaten the needs for competence and/or autonomy.’
7. ‘The story is made up of short vignettes or episodes in Ray's life. These stories start with Ray in heaven and move backwards in time until he is a small child.’
8. ‘Webster chose the vignettes wisely
9. including accounts of Orde Wingate and the Chindits
10. Merrill's Marauders
11. and Chennault's Flying Tigers.’
12. ‘We also presented respondents four brief vignettes in which the probation officers were asked how often they would mandate alcohol treatment for the probationer described in the vignette.’
13. ‘The disc presents an extended trailer showing some brief behind-the-scenes vignettes of the film's production and providing some remarks from Vidor himself.’
14. ‘Although the kind of prison these cons are describing in bone-chilling vignettes is
15. of the kind you only fantasize if you really have issues or if gone to bed after a particularly spicy chalupa.’
16. ‘The brief vignettes march on and patterns slowly emerge.’
17. ‘Secondly
18. respondents were asked to decide on whether to admit to intensive care eight hypothetical patients who had been described in clinical vignettes.’
19. ‘They're just brief
20. little vignettes but I think they're pretty funny.’
21. ‘Throughout the book
22. Lowenthal has inserted sidebars containing brief descriptions and vignettes summarizing the more detailed material in the text; these add a certain panache to the work.’
23. ‘The opening is a silly
24. whimsical musical piece with dolphins
25. followed throughout the film with brilliant animated vignettes describing articles from the actual guide for galactic hitchhikers.’
26. ‘For example
27. I could have describe a vignette in which I go to visit the school
28. dress in school uniform (steady on)
29. and then realise that I've nothing to change into to wear to uni.’
30. ‘The chase scene that follows is intercut with brief vignettes showing the bank officials glorying in the publicity the robbery has created.’
31. ‘While vignettes are offered and brief quotes support analytic assertions
32. more emphasis could have been placed on the words and actions of Habitat participants.’
33. ‘Potential mechanisms and clinical vignettes are included to describe the systemic processes that occur with trauma couples.’
34. ‘Briefly
35. the process involved the creation of 37 vignettes describing hypothetical ethical dilemmas.’
36. ‘Up until two weeks ago
37. he painted and cranked out brief
38. autobiographical vignettes - one a day.’
39. ‘51 vignettes
40. or episodes of interaction
41. were selected from the vita
42. 23 episodes with men and 28 with women.’