Given the moral chiaroscuro we're entering

a discarded but upright Christmas tree that sits in a corner of the little lawn in my court. The chiaroscuro of its branches half covered with snow suggest the pen lines of an artist

The heavens, that best chiaroscuro, are color-blind

But the popularity of Zero Dark Thirty is not a product of the viewing public’s discerning eye for chiaroscuro.

Beloved is in one sense a fable about the chiaroscuro of staying half-merged to someone else, the redemptive power and the unholy danger of “not separate from.”

of chiaroscuro, non-“flat” lighting, although this is very rare even in early Ozu

dark with the consciousness of human fate, and besotted with the high adjectival style of that consciousness as it lifts a coming-of-age narrative to the level of brilliant chiaroscuro meditation

Wong’s cinematographers are almost as adept at rendering chiaroscuro as the great Caravaggio