Definitions
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- adjective Resembling a
movie : unrealistically romantic, exciting, etc.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Also would like to see if they'll be making their games more movielike.
Ubisoft Has A Crystal Ball! SVGL 2009
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It took four days to set up the decorations, which included 2,100 stems of Viburnum brought in from Virginia and seven movielike screens that integrated Google map technology to pinpoint the 200 organizations the foundation funds.
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What bothers me about the journalistic tendency to reduce unmanageable reality to self-contained, movielike little dramas is not just that we falsify when we do this.
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WHEN LAGUNA BEACH DEBUTED on MTV in September of 2004, it was a new kind of reality show, with multiple cameras, gorgeous movielike lighting and a traditional narrative that followed young, good-looking and wealthy high schoolers.
The Other Lauren 2007
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WHEN LAGUNA BEACH DEBUTED on MTV in September of 2004, it was a new kind of reality show, with multiple cameras, gorgeous movielike lighting and a traditional narrative that followed young, good-looking and wealthy high schoolers.
The Other Lauren 2007
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Joanna herself was a little surprised at the movielike patness of it.
The Silicon Mage Hambly, Barbara 1988
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The images of planes flying into the World Trade Center and the twin towers crumbling, to be replayed time after time in high-definition on television, were strikingly movielike.
SFGate: Top News Stories Jake Coyle 2011
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Put in Tarzan movielike terms the equation goes like this: British PSCs are professionals; American PSCs are laughingstocks: To cite a passage from Geddes memoir:
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com David Isenberg 2012
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Put in Tarzan movielike terms the equation goes like this: British PSCs are professionals; American PSCs are laughingstocks: To cite a passage from Geddes memoir:
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com David Isenberg 2012
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Do more higher-quality images of catastrophe make it seem more real or more movielike?
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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