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  • adverb In a diegetic way or manner.

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  • All of it grappled with, workshopped out — diegetically, you might say.

    Lost In Space 2009

  • All of it grappled with, workshopped out — diegetically, you might say.

    Lost In Space 2009

  • All of it grappled with, workshopped out — diegetically, you might say.

    Lost In Space 2009

  • But they continue to try and convince us that we're watching a kind of documentary long afterwards, and it's only when the form's limitations become too constraining-we eventually need to see characters in situations that no diegetically placed camera could possibly capture-that the film starts breaking its own rules and things get confused.

    Vue Weekly Josef Braun / josef@vueweekly.com 2009

  • Down in the basement, some bad things have come to call, and Fig finds herself face-to-face with the diegetically impaired Miranda in part 3 of "Love Stories for Dead People."

    Major Spoilers 2008

  • Another contemplative drama released at the same time, Jean Becker's Conversations with My Gardener, also uses music diegetically, in this case the second movement of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A major, to make a poignant cultural point.

    Blogposts | guardian.co.uk 2008

  • If you survive the first sentence “Science fiction is by widespread consensus the prose genre devoted to representing the precepts of the physical sciences -- the precepts of materialism -- diegetically: standard definitions of science fiction typically explicate the genre under the related rubrics of extrapolation and plausibility.” you’ll find references to or insightful analysis of Martian SF works by H. G. Wells, Kim Stanley Robinson, C. L. Moore, Stanley G.

    Monstrous reading: the theme of Anti-Sacrifice in the Sci-Fi pulps Paul 2008

  • If you survive the first sentence “Science fiction is by widespread consensus the prose genre devoted to representing the precepts of the physical sciences -- the precepts of materialism -- diegetically: standard definitions of science fiction typically explicate the genre under the related rubrics of extrapolation and plausibility.” you’ll find references to or insightful analysis of Martian SF works by H. G. Wells, Kim Stanley Robinson, C. L. Moore, Stanley G.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Paul 2008

  • Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometimes plays diegetically.

    Epinions Recent Content for Home 2009

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