Monica Lewinsky was finally ready for her close-up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ready For Her Close-Up] Reference

Within two months, I was "ready for my close-up" again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Moret: Self-publishing 2.0: How I Saved My Book] Reference

But they gave me no dialogue -- and cut my one close-up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Movies: You've Got Chain Mail] Reference

But Bellucci knew she wasn't ready for her close-up yet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bella Bellucci] Reference

Ferguson's bears, however, are ready for their close-up.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Almost Unbearable Idea] Reference

The postcard-pretty town of Rhinebeck is ready for its close-up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rhinebeck Readies For Chelsea Clinton Wedding] Reference

He is said to be as defiant as ever -- and ready for his close-up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reckoning in Iraq] Reference

A close-up of a blouse at a New York preview of the line on Tuesday.    From Wordnik.com.  [Penney Weaves New Fast-Fashion Line] Reference

Cut to a close-up of the banana peel, just as the guy's foot hits it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Geopolitics Of Pratfalls] Reference

Sometimes they call for a better "money shot": a big close-up of Dora.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guilt Free TV] Reference

A close-up view showing the back side of the thunderstorm's anvil top.    From Wordnik.com.  [A week ago: thunderstorm clouds at sunset] Reference

For more than two years I watched him in close-up at home and at work.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Private Prince] Reference

A close-up of the faces from February 1899 next to a massive snowdrift.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rediscovering a classic Washington weather photo] Reference

Cut to a close-up of the banana peel, just as the guy's foot almost hits it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Geopolitics Of Pratfalls] Reference

So in the editing room, Demme added one brief, graphic close-up of one victim.    From Wordnik.com.  [Violence In Our Culture] Reference

However, there can be a downside using these lenses to take close-up portraits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tip of the Week: Preventing distortion in wide-angle portraits] Reference

Hollenbeck's father, an Army Ranger officer, saw close-up how Vietnam turned into a disaster.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘The Fight That We Are in Now’] Reference

Hop aboard a pontoon boat for a close-up look at sea otters, peregrine falcons and sea lions.    From Wordnik.com.  [FAMILY TRAVEL: WHERE WILD THINGS ROAM] Reference

BUTTERFLY WATCHING, for age 7 and older, close-up observation in the "butterfly garden." 9-11 a.m.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prince George's County community calendar, Aug.5-12, 2010] Reference

The last thing they want is the close-up picture of crooked or stained teeth running in some tabloid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas P. Connelly, D.D.S.: Celebrity Smiles: Why Do They Have to Be So Perfect ? How?] Reference

Check out the grainy, short clip below and get ready to say, "Awww!" during the close-up of baby Ben.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gisele And Baby Benjamin Visit Tom Brady At Training Camp (VIDEO)] Reference

The very last shot of Livia was a tight close-up, her mouth laboring to breathe under an oxygen mask.    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Sopranos:' Making A Mob Hit] Reference

I was asked to jog on a treadmill while the staff scrutinized a TV feed showing a close-up of my feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Want healthy knees? Try barefoot running] Reference

The camera did a close-up on the images of a jumble of bodies and then on what looked like a severed head.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Belly Of The Beast] Reference

If he fails, the perennial survivor, Yasir Arafat, is waiting in the wings, ready for yet another close-up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sideline Arafat, Boost Abbas] Reference

ENVIRONMENTCritical ListThe snail darter had its 15 minutes; now the honeycreeper is ready for its close-up.    From Wordnik.com.  ['A Scandal Waiting To Blow'] Reference

Here's a sample of a close-up I took of an n-scale model train set using Apple's new iPhone 3G S built-in camera.    From Wordnik.com.  [iPhone 3G S: First impressions of its upgraded camera] Reference

PIONEER 10Launched in March 1972, it was the first spacecraft to directly observe and obtain close-up images of Jupiter.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Space Mystery] Reference

The containment capping stack is seen in this close-up image captured from a BP live video feed from the Gulf of Mexico.    From Wordnik.com.  [BP Says Tests Show Well Is Plugged] Reference

Havas unit, said the products weren't allowed to be shown in close-up, and their use had to be appropriate to the show's plot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bracing for Product Plugs] Reference

The soil samples showed the ground would be firm enough, and the pictures gave commanders a close-up view of their battlefield.    From Wordnik.com.  [Secret Warriors] Reference

One, dreamed up by Carter Eskew, a Washington pro, showed a full-screen close-up of the president's mouth saying "Read my lips.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The War Room Drill] Reference

You can take a mummy from its sarcophagus, zoom in for a close-up or remove the mask and see the nicely preserved face beneath it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hands-On 3-D Tour] Reference

Perhaps that's so you can better examine your face before telling the Lenovo's VeriFace software, "I'm ready for my close-up." —.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Lenovo laptop that knows your face] Reference

Every beautiful, hard-earned wrinkle is shown in extreme close-up as she realizes that her spouse of two decades has been having an affair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Annette, two mommies, and me] Reference