Black-and-white

"Black-and-white" in a Sentence (15 examples)

It's a black-and-white picture.

He simply reacts to a black-and-white view of the world; he thinks you are either all for him or all against him.

The flickering black-and-white television set irritated my weary eyes.

The flickering black-and-white television set bothered my exhausted eyes.

Tom has a black-and-white TV.

Tom has a black-and-white television.

This year's runaway hit is Nigeria's jersey, mainly lime green with a black-and-white wing motif on the sleeves.

Sami wore a black-and-white striped shirt.

I ate a black-and-white cookie.

Black-and-white TVs are obsolete.

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The pseudo-community of enemies in The Day the Earth Stood Still consists of politicians, the military, and businessmen, whereas the pseudo-community of friends, the element that complements the enemies and reinforces the black-and-white morality of paranoia (Cameron, "Revisited" 56), is composed of scientists, women, and children.

2008, Linus Torvalds, [https://web.archive.org/web/20140805134937/http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/706950 Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.25.10], LKML; quoted in: Bezpieczeństwo, Jacek Popławski, pl.comp.os.advocacy, Usenet Security people are often the black-and-white kind of people that I can't stand.

“It's complicated. Not everything is black-and-white, Ginny. Sometimes, it's just gray.” The disillusionment in Ginny's eyes hurt bone-deep. She was a black-and-white kind of person. Actions were either right or wrong. No room for in-betweens.

You could say that inflexible thinking is black-and-white thinking and flexible thinking is rainbow thinking. Black-and-white thinkers have difficulty being flexible in their mind and seeing different possibilities and perspectives.

[T]he news bunny ran up to him, saying, "Officer, did you have trouble catching up with Batman? Was it an exciting chase?" The surfer cop struck a semi-heroic pose for the camera and said, "Weak sauce." Then he quickly walked Batman to the black-and-white, where he was put into the backseat.

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