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Black-and-white

adjective

Lacking hue or shades of grey; part white and part black. "Black-and-white blooms" , "Black-and-white stripes"

Not having or not capable of producing colors. Synonym: black and white. "A black-and-white TV" , "The movie was in black and white"

Of a situation that is sharply divided into mutually exclusive categories. "There are no black-and-white certainties" , "There were no grey areas, you were either for him or against him, he was all black-and-white"

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"Black-and-white" Quotes from Famous Books

... box-office, the keenest observer would have failed to detect any absorbing preoccupation in the perfect gentleman of fashion, and would never have guessed the contents of this pretty drawing-room article, black-and-white lacquered, and well locked. ...

— The Immortal - Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 • Alphonse Daudet

... with the wheel while mother and Eph packed us up with the inevitable basket for Byrd plus the also inevitable "little ones" that daddy somehow managed to find for him. These young were three small kittens, attended in their blindness by a black-and-white-spotted mother cat, all safely laced into a large basket and by that time resigned to their fate. I didn't mean to be disrespectful to dear Peter in my thoughts, but somehow they reminded me of him as he was led to farm life; and I laughed outright as Eph gave ...

— Over Paradise Ridge - A Romance • Maria Thompson Daviess

... rose birds, startled by their approach, one whirring away voicelessly from a hidden nest, another, a yellow and black-throated lark, singing joyously. They crossed the meadow and came up the swelling slope of a gentle hill; upon its flatfish top were oaks; in the shade of the oaks three black-and-white cows looked with mild, approving eyes upon their three tiny black-and-white calves. With the pictured memory unfading, Helen's eyes were momentarily held by an eagle balancing against the sky; the great bird, as though he were conscious that he held briefly ...

— The Desert Valley • Jackson Gregory

... me? Is this sketch here, admittedly imperfect, a mere black-and-white swift outline, not intended to be shaded or coloured, or brought up to the round; is this mere outline of what a good man ought to be, at all like me? Yes or no? I think we must all say No to the question, and acknowledge our failure to ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah and Jeremiah • Alexander Maclaren

... door on silent, felt-shod feet, a black-and-white picture of well-trained servility. "Pardon, Madame, Tojiko says that Mlle. Sommerville wishes to ...

— The Bent Twig • Dorothy Canfield

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