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- verb Present participle of
iris .
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Examples
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Mr. Truffaut uses all manner of quirky techniques, from old-fashioned irising in or out of an image to shots that are frozen in the midst of movement, creating a flip-book effect.
For the Love of a Fickle Woman Peter Cowie 2012
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Stryker flattened himself against the back wall in the darkness, irising his goggles out full to capture every available lumen.
365 tomorrows » Assumption : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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Stryker flattened himself against the back wall in the darkness, irising his goggles out full to capture every available lumen.
365 tomorrows » 2008 » November : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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On one side a broken cloud was irising the last rays of the sun: on the other, layers of purple and crimson banked and crushed each other, mixed like X-rayed paint pigments.
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On one side a broken cloud was irising the last rays of the sun: on the other, layers of purple and crimson banked and crushed each other, mixed like X-rayed paint pigments.
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Preminger injects the color into the film slowly, fading in some blue ocean waves over Cecile's shoulder as she dances, then irising out from the center of the image with a burst of color.
Films I Love #3: Bonjour Tristesse (Otto Preminger, 1958) Ed Howard 2008
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This scene is, like so much in THE OBLONG BOX, rather cheaply done and tightly framed - in this instance, however, that irising-in seems less like a budgetary concern than a way to make this particular murder seem as intimate and unsparing as it should.
31 Screams: Uta Levka Arbogast 2008
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Steel spends a lot of time irising in on random people on the bridge, some of whom pause at the railing, priming us, each time, for trauma.
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Preminger injects the color into the film slowly, fading in some blue ocean waves over Cecile's shoulder as she dances, then irising out from the center of the image with a burst of color.
Archive 2008-09-01 Ed Howard 2008
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Jake opened his eyes as he heard the slight hissing sound of the door irising open.
Shadow Hunters Christie Golden 2007
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