in black and white
idiom
1
: in written or printed form
I want to see it in black and white.
2
: 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.
3
: 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
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Keeping score Politics is a zero-sum profession, its score-keeping writ in black and white.
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Mark Barabak, The Mercury News, 1 Jan. 2025
Is there a lesson for Joe Biden? Feb. 26, 2023
Politics is a zero-sum profession, its score-keeping writ in black and white.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2024
Only snow, ice, and rock were visible as far as the eye could see, an unreal wilderness in black and white, with a clear, sunny, enormous sky in purest sapphire above it, stretching up into the midnight blue of space.
—Christian Kracht, Harper's Magazine, 2 Nov. 2024
Having someone like Vanessa, who is so good at her job and can see things in black and white, so that there’s not as much levels of, ‘will this happen?
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 20 Dec. 2024
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Mark Barabak, The Mercury News, 1 Jan. 2025
Is there a lesson for Joe Biden? Feb. 26, 2023
Politics is a zero-sum profession, its score-keeping writ in black and white.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2024
Only snow, ice, and rock were visible as far as the eye could see, an unreal wilderness in black and white, with a clear, sunny, enormous sky in purest sapphire above it, stretching up into the midnight blue of space.
—Christian Kracht, Harper's Magazine, 2 Nov. 2024
Having someone like Vanessa, who is so good at her job and can see things in black and white, so that there’s not as much levels of, ‘will this happen?
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 20 Dec. 2024
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“In black and white.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20black%20and%20white. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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