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  • adjective of a project such as a film Achieved with a relatively small financial outlay

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  • adjective made on or suited to a limited budget

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Examples

  • The euphemism for low-budget independent movies at the time was “art” films.

    One From The Hart Stefanie Powers 2010

  • In other words, most Japanese comedy, both live and on television, has been closer to what Americans would term low-budget farce - physical comedians, often performing in traditional, vaudeville-style duos replete with a straight man - doing silly pranks that allows the audience to feel superior to what they are seeing on their TVs.

    News - chicagotribune.com Chris 2012

  • In other words, most Japanese comedy, both live and on television, has been closer to what Americans would term low-budget farce - physical comedians, often performing in traditional, vaudeville-style duos replete with a straight man - doing silly pranks that allows the audience to feel superior to what they are seeing on their TVs.

    News - chicagotribune.com Chris 2012

  • In other words, most Japanese comedy, both live and on television, has been closer to what Americans would term low-budget farce - physical comedians, often performing in traditional, vaudeville-style duos replete with a straight man - doing silly pranks that allows the audience to feel superior to what they are seeing on their TVs.

    News - chicagotribune.com Chris 2012

  • With the help of a punk sidekick scene stealer Ksenia Solo, Bo forges her own path, trying to keep her lethal desires under control, and the action and whimsy help compensate for an overall flatness in the rest of the ensemble casting and low-budget production.

    Monday TV in Review: Alcatraz, Lost Girl, Being Human and More 2012

  • The Republican leadership has never really challenged ACORN, it took a group of low-budget conservative film makers to take down this organization, or at least make it radioactive from here on out to get Republicans to challenge the organization.

    Senate votes to strip ACORN of federal funding, 83-7. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009

  • He tells the story of his alienated youth in "Lightning Bug," a bittersweet low-budget feature he directed in 2005.

    The Virtuoso of Blood and Guts Steve Oney 2011

  • Colbert was the de facto host for the afternoon gathering -- Jon Stewart went back to NYC after the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear -- and after entering to applause around 6 p.m. (trailed by two Comedy Central bodyguards who looked like low-budget Secret Service agents), he climbed the (non-working) fountain to thank all the staff and crew for their help.

    Stephen Colbert achieves new heights at the Rally to Restore Sanity afterparty The Reliable Source 2010

  • I also lived 17 years overseas, in Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia/East Timor, Egypt, Hong Kong and India; and have done the rounds of several low-budget insurgencies, plus the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Bosnia - so I know of what I speak.

    MP Nunan: "Off the Map" Is Off the Mark MP Nunan 2011

  • I also lived 17 years overseas, in Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia/East Timor, Egypt, Hong Kong and India; and have done the rounds of several low-budget insurgencies, plus the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Bosnia - so I know of what I speak.

    MP Nunan: "Off the Map" Is Off the Mark MP Nunan 2011

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