A surprisingly impressionistic review bearing marks of hasty composition. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Her style could be called impressionistic, but she has a different label. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The ink outlines may be crudely etched, the style described as impressionistic, at best. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to 'The Official Michael Jackson Opus' - Paula Abdul among celebrities' written tributes to King of Pop] Reference
On the radio, he presents his observations about the marsh in short, impressionistic essays. From Wordnik.com. [Coastal Disturbances] Reference
It has been called impressionistic; Velasquez has been claimed as the father of impressionism as Stendhal was hailed by Zola as the literary progenitor of naturalism. From Wordnik.com. [Promenades of an Impressionist] Reference
Mr. Hulett was moving in a kind of impressionistic direction, at this time. From Wordnik.com. [The Mid-Week Hulett: Nevada Goldmine Town] Reference
The colouring was also very noticeably simplified -- "impressionistic" would better express it. From Wordnik.com. [Swirling Waters] Reference
Both of them, it turned out, were -- they were not told chronologically, they were kind of impressionistic memoirs. From Wordnik.com. [Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34] Reference
This use of local color must not be confused with that intended to produce what is called an "impressionistic" effect. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories for English Courses] Reference
I don't think it's supposed to be some kind of impressionistic thing. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy] Reference
It would be one thing if this were some kind of impressionistic device, but it's not. From Wordnik.com. [digg.com: Stories / Popular] Reference
The onslaught of colorist syntax in Nielsen begins with massive unisons and move to the "impressionistic" modalities of the. From Wordnik.com. [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference
It might be maintained with some plausibility that Verlaine's poetry takes its place in the "impressionistic" period, side by side with. From Wordnik.com. [Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations] Reference
"should be mechanical rather than 'impressionistic'". . From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
I don’t think it’s supposed to be some kind of impressionistic thing. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » A New York Court?] Reference
"Of course Mr. Ohmann, up to his ears in obsolete index cards, dismisses what he calls" impressionistic ". criticism. From Wordnik.com. [The Devil's Disciple] Reference
To be sure it was a bit angular and impressionistic. From Wordnik.com. [Hepsey Burke] Reference
Slavic race is crystallized in these two impressionistic words. From Wordnik.com. [Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy] Reference
They're usually impressionistic waves of words and images, sung in Spanish. From Wordnik.com. [Juana Molina's 'Son' Explores New Aural Landscapes] Reference
The result was often deliberately impressionistic and unabashedly allegorical. From Wordnik.com. [‘I Had To Experience Everything For Myself’] Reference
All three pictures are broadly painted and swept in in the usual impressionistic manner. From Wordnik.com. [Luca Signorelli] Reference
It may almost be said that he gave it to us as an impressionistic account of his own life. From Wordnik.com. [Personality in Literature] Reference
The purpose of each volume in this series is impressionistic rather than definitely educational. From Wordnik.com. [Buddhism and Buddhists in China] Reference
A photographer whose impressionistic studies of figures in landscapes are both confessional and mysterious. From Wordnik.com. [Artist of the week 104: Elina Brotherus] Reference
Moore's methods are scattershot, impressionistic and personal: rigorous historical analysis is not his bag. From Wordnik.com. [Son Of A Gun] Reference
NB: Please be clear that my weekly drives through nearby "foreign lands" are meant only to be impressionistic. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Poses: Farm Stands of Chester County, PA] Reference
It is this impressionistic method which is most used by masters to picture those characters which seem to us real persons. From Wordnik.com. [Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story] Reference
Scoring was so impressionistic, so undefined, that it was hard to prove that a performance merited a 5.9 rather than a 5.8. From Wordnik.com. [Scoring Without Scandal?] Reference
In the plot story, or in the impressionistic story, we may accept the flat figures on the canvas; our interest is elsewhere. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories for English Courses] Reference
(A documentary he wrote, Black Sun, used impressionistic photography in an attempt to re-create his experience of the world.). From Wordnik.com. [I See, Said the Blind Man] Reference
Are the descriptions concrete and accurate, or on the other hand purposely general (impressionistic) or carelessly superficial?. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
They miss how LaFaro's note choices relate to the impressionistic chord voicings that give Evans's playing so much of its character. From Wordnik.com. [Emulating Bill Evans] Reference
In the consideration of the real factors in the impressionistic movement, we learn that it is not Monet and the younger crew such as. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
But even those impressionistic names are useful only if a company has the marketing dollars to convince consumers they mean something. From Wordnik.com. [Losing The Name Game] Reference
The short-story also is impressionistic because it leaves to the reader the reconstruction from hints of much of the setting and details. From Wordnik.com. [The Short-story] Reference
This impressionistic criticism is essentially a personal view, and without it very few current books could be considered critically at all. From Wordnik.com. [The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing] Reference
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