Similar words: headpiece, bits and pieces, piece by piece, piece, apiece, in pieces, of a piece, a piece of. Meaning: n. any work of art whose special value lies in its evocation of a historical period.
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1 This large house, thoroughly modernized, is furnished with period pieces including a four-poster bed.
2 This book is a period piece.
3 I'd really love to do a period piece—you get to wear the funny costumes!
4 The Qianlong period piece sold for US $2.74 million (HK $21.3 million).
5 That is now a period piece, but I think it is important to keep it on the record.
6 I'm writing a period piece right now, set in 1904.
7 Here's a period piece with irresistible immediacy, a brilliant pairing of a monarch who's heroic by virtue of his personal struggle, and an uncommon commoner who helps him find his authentic voice.
8 The role would mark the first period piece for Page, who has signed on to a number of contemporary pics since her Oscar-nominated turn in "Juno, " including the roller-derby comedy "Whip It! "
9 We ask about "Virgin Territory, " a period piece based on the 14th-century Italian classic "The Decameron , " which Christensen filmed in Florence with Mischa Barton.
10 This is the period piece for the decade, in much the same way as the movie Wall Street captured the sensibility of the late 80s.
11 I think doing a period piece is easier, because after a certain distance, everybody is equal.
12 It is a good-natured, but not particularly well-thought-out, period piece—heavy on the art design,[www.Sentencedict.com] light on the plot construction—that generally typifies an HBO movie these days.
13 The play, which once seemed so modern, has become a period piece.
14 Lehrer, it turns out, was aiming all along for something more than a period piece.
15 But the three females provide the material that makes Second Lives transcend the normal period piece.
16 Talent: Director Joe Wright steered precocious Irish actress Saoirse Ronan to an Oscar nomination in their 2008 period piece Atonement.
17 The producer also mentions that the movie will probably be half modern - day and half period piece.
18 Knightley presumably got a script for this austere but moving period piece.
19 The actor admits there is more than one obstacle to starring in the period piece being shot on a sprawling ranch about 100 km west of Calgary.
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