How to Use televisual in a Sentence

televisual

adjective
  • In spite of his recent televisual coup, the stage is where his heart lies.
    Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 21 Sep. 2021
  • What role did the Ramayan and the televisual medium play in galvanising the movement?
    Sanaya Chandar, Quartz India, 8 Nov. 2019
  • In any event, Mare of Easttown has given us a perfect televisual Rorschach test.
    Nate Jones, Vulture, 27 May 2021
  • The league is as much a televisual enterprise as an athletic one.
    Jody Rosen, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2019
  • What were the defining moments leading to its current televisual reign of terror?
    Rosie Knight, refinery29.com, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Even with all the televisual trickery in reality show production, there was no faking the artistry and care involved.
    Elisa Ludwig, Philly.com, 30 May 2018
  • Grace’s mind seems less a site of internal conflict than a repository of televisual clichés.
    Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2020
  • Such interviews may be the terminal metastasis of televisual culture: a host body being consumed by its own cells and organs.
    Jacob Bacharach, The New Republic, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Still, Guillén has spent a decade navigating some pretty weird televisual worlds.
    New York Times, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Feeding the fish took half a century by today’s manic televisual standards.
    Heather Havrilesky, The Cut, 31 May 2018
  • Why not bring together the entirety of the Sky televisual universe with Netflix, along with multiscreen usage, so the family can watch together or make the most of the package separately.
    Laura Sutherland, CNN Underscored, 29 Nov. 2020
  • Marvel’s cinematic and now televisual universe has persisted for long enough for self-criticism to be its latest stage.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 9 July 2021
  • World in Action was a mélange of lots of different things wrapped into filmmaking: There was a lot of documentary, a lot of reportage, a lot of journalism, a lot of strange televisual stunts that turned into programs, a lot of agitprop politics.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 3 Feb. 2021
  • Now the artist uses the medium — alongside ASL, musical notation and televisual captioning — to comment on the social and political operations of sound.
    Laura Zornosa, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2020
  • These highly televisual events, with little context or sense of scale, spread rapidly across digital platforms, often going viral and kicking off a secondary media cycle over the virality itself.
    Wired, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Even Matthews’s appeals to history qua history are correspondingly punditized, and miniaturized for seeming televisual consumption.
    Chris Lehmann, The New Republic, 1 June 2021
  • This Bulgaria-shot production would, however, benefit from richer atmospherics: Despite adequate design contributions and a widescreen format, Denis Crossan’s cinematography has a somewhat plain, televisual look.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 27 Oct. 2022
  • But was this really Chase chasing cinema, or discovering and capitalizing on latent, intrinsically televisual storytelling possibilities that were there all along?
    Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2021
  • The Bavarian lacks televisual charisma, has no executive experience and has alienated centrists and centre-leftists with his long association with Viktor Orban, Hungary’s authoritarian prime minister.
    Charlemagne | Brussels, The Economist, 21 June 2019
  • Cinematic and televisual entertainment has been overloaded into almost every architectural space.
    Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 16 Jan. 2020

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