Meaning of screensavery | Babel Free

Definitions

Resembling a screensaver.

informal

Examples

“Anyway, I haven't seen the pack around a lot, in fact I've only seen it in a Game Zone store, and even then it was tucked away from the other screensavery bits and pieces.”

“You can play your iTunes music while watching those cool screensavery visualizers on your HDTV.”

“They're all very good, making their undigestibly fibrous dialogue ("The human infection will only continue to spread," "You are gambling with the lives of millions!", etc., etc.) seem like stuff humans might say, and reacting convincingly to digitally animated calamities that, save for a few money shots of the creatures, generally have a weightless, screensavery quality.”

“This remake injects some contemporary misfortune (humans despoil the water, we're told). It also packs on another 52 minutes and three new songs, trades zany for demure and swaps vast animated land- and seascapes for soundstagey sets and screensavery imagery.”

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