in black and white

idiom

: in written or printed form

I want to see it in black and white.

: in a way that involves a simple choice between two opposite things (such as good and bad or right and wrong)

She sees everything in black and white.

: using equipment that produces only black-and-white pictures

a movie filmed in black and white.

Examples of in black and white in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Both films are in black and white and shot on 16mm film, maintaining a visual consistency. —

Jamie Lang, Variety, 2 Aug. 2024 But what Project 2025 puts down in black and white is not theoretically scary. —

Washington Post Live, Washington Post, 12 July 2024 One essay, that of… Cyprus This book on the fate of Cyprus from 1960 to 1974 is written in sorrow, in anger, and in black and white. —

Foreign Affairs, 16 July 2024 Since then, there have been hot priests in black and white (Montgomery Clift in I Confess and Gregory Peck in The Keys of the Kingdom) and hot priests in color (Christopher Reeve in Monsignor and Antonio Banderas in The Body). —

Ellen O’Connell Whittet, Vogue, 19 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for in black and white

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