Meanings
adjectivetransitionless (not comparable)
- not comparableLacking a transition.
The intimacy between us seemed as sudden and transitionless as in a dream.
1988, Edmund White, chapter 1, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 19941 more example
Significantly, Asian theater was also an important source of Eisenstein’s theory of expressive movement: the instantaneous shift from action to pose is akin to the “transitionless acting” he found in kabuki.
2001, David Bordwell, “Aesthetics in Action: Kungfu, Gunplay, and Cinematic Expressivity”, in Esther C. M. Yau, editor, At Full Speed: Hong Kong Cinema in a Borderless World, University of Minneapolis Press, page 82
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