So what I have here is kind of pointillist and jittery, little glimpses of characters doing things. From Wordnik.com. [there is a crack in everything. that's how the light gets in.] Reference
Think of the episode as a kind of pointillist canvas, with each dot of discovery forming the big picture of a Sci Fi plot device. From Wordnik.com. [Eleventh Hour: Nanofilms] Reference
It offers all the spontaneity of a pointillist painting. From Wordnik.com. [Stanley Kutler: Our Enabling Media] Reference
I had the impression we were playing in a pointillist picture. From Wordnik.com. [An Autobiography]
My questions -- are you a pointillist? and do you like Seurat?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-06-01] Reference
The global landscape is impressionist, cubist and pointillist. From Wordnik.com. [30 Most Incredible Abstract Satellite Images of Earth | Disinformation] Reference
The result is a rich, pointillist depiction of life on the site. From Wordnik.com. [Documentaries: The Weird Wide Web] Reference
The plantings at Powell are mostly pointillist and polychromatic. From Wordnik.com. [Powell Gardens, part 1 « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog] Reference
How much do I love that this article references pointillist paintings?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference
The penises which came up a lot were cubist, pointillist and surrealist. From Wordnik.com. [Will Gompertz: 'We're brought up to be intimidated by art'] Reference
The sea was a pointillist picture pricked in silver light to the horizon. From Wordnik.com. [The Lighthouse]
The result was a picture of knowledge that resem - bled a pointillist painting. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Asakusa seemed a dream, a painting from the brush of a pointillist like Seurat. From Wordnik.com. [Black Blade]
She began to paint in a neo-pointillist style, covering canvases with bright dots. From Wordnik.com. [Eugenie Baizerman.] Reference
Trees flower overnight and the landscape is dotted with pointillist bursts of color. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrating Spring: Cherry Cream Scones] Reference
They have dots in a pointillist picture, but they're not artists, they're dot-makers. From Wordnik.com. [McChrystal Forces Us to Focus] Reference
Rain began to pucker the water, making of its rich reflections pointillist impressions. From Wordnik.com. [The Kaisho]
They were prints of paintings by Georges Seurat, who pioneered the pointillist technique. From Wordnik.com. [THE DEVIL’S TEARDROP] Reference
In the book I use an example of a pointillist painting (that's the one with all the dots). From Wordnik.com. [Malcolm Friedberg: On Fundamental Rights] Reference
A pointillist picture made up of thousands of dots that come into focus when we're not trying?. From Wordnik.com. [island of la grande jatte] Reference
The world, this early, was fog-shrouded, familiar landmarks rendered as in a pointillist painting. From Wordnik.com. [The Ninja]
Byatt has wrought a richly detailed, decade-spanning, at once Olympian and pointillist masterpiece. From Wordnik.com. [Books of the Year] Reference
Look at this little kid using finger paint to create a pointillist painting of a Mutant Ninja Turtle. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
Oftentimes, notes seemingly danced off the ivory keys, either in manic fusillade or pointillist poise. From Wordnik.com. [Musis review: Cecil Taylor's unpatterned poise] Reference
Georges Seurat is sometimes classed as an impres - sionist; more often as a post-impressionist or pointillist. From Wordnik.com. [IMPRESSIONISM IN ART] Reference
The illuminated dots flashed in pointillist patterns sufficiently bold to give pause to a French impressionist. From Wordnik.com. [The Mocking Program]
Mostly, though, "Page Six" serves to provide a daily, pointillist portrait of an increasingly ephemeral culture. From Wordnik.com. [The Gossip Behind the Gossip] Reference
Mecier is notorious for his celebrity portraits constructed in pointillist fashion out of, well, basically, debris. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference
In all likelihood, those very same cinders were the source of the pointillist irritation on his left cheek and ear. From Wordnik.com. [Here Comes Another Lesson] Reference
Don't miss the Edward Hopper "Nighthawks" or the Seurat, the great pointillist piece, "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte.". From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 15, 2004] Reference
The line overhead was dotted with singing black bodies, and a pointillist line of white defined one edge of the road. From Wordnik.com. [The Beekeeper's Apprentice]
In fact, speaking through the post-modern lens, you could say that the boomer generation is like a pointillist painting. From Wordnik.com. [The Boomer Blog: Marketers on Marketers Archives] Reference
I prefer to think of our meaning as a pointillist picture, thousands of dots that come into focus when you aren't trying. From Wordnik.com. [spirit of the staircase] Reference
There's such a plethora of documents and materials that they end up being pointillist and tend to write about small things. From Wordnik.com. [Our Country: The Shaping of America from Roosevelt to Reagan] Reference
The wide ISO range with improved noise reduction means you can shoot in near darkness without the usual pointillist effects. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Top Stories] Reference
Business Columnist Like an image emerging from a pointillist painting, the problems facing. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Business News] Reference
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