Adjective : a pointillistic style of acting.    From Dictionary.com. 

But Foals songs were likely to spend far more time in pointillistic guitar counterpoint – a tangle turned into a syncopated grid – before the vocals arrived.    From Wordnik.com.  [CMJ Music Marathon: Artful Yelps and Tidal Waves of Sound - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

It was a sparkling pointillistic blob, moving relative to the target.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]

In fact lavish, almost pointillistic detail seems to power her project.    From Wordnik.com.  [Books] Reference

Then she changed the way of putting paint on canvas, arriving at almost a pointillistic type of technique.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mela Muter.] Reference

Still, Rosen thinks there's an outside chance that Miss Hathaway might sprout into a good pointillistic-detail justice, like Lewis Powell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sealed with a Kiss: James Wolcott] Reference

It's as if I'm standing a few inches from an Impressionist painting, the players, the coaches, the fans all dissolving in a pointillistic blur.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Short, Manic Time in the NFL] Reference

The "Three Pieces" are sparse and quiet, but also much more pointillistic, dissonant, and non-repetitive than Feldman's later, better-known music.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-11-01] Reference

The pointillistic forms of two other hunters materialized from the textured curtain of snowflakes-Craag and Braan, in white growler skins and nearly invisible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Genellan- Planetfall]

Under Esa-Pekka Salonen's leadership, it gained considerable skills in executing sharply gauged, pointillistic effects, so important in Gallic orchestral works.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rodney Punt: A Glowing Roméo et Juliette -- Charles Dutoit with the LA Philharmonic in Berlioz] Reference

The catch is that only your "followers" automatically receive these pointillistic communiqués, so the more followers you have, the more (theoretically) influential you are.    From Wordnik.com.  [Me And My 39,000 Friends] Reference

Gosfield's contribution has been to capture and organize, with her pointillistic montages, the precise colors, energies and consequences of the world of function as unintentional but beautiful form.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rodney Punt: Annie Gosfield in Concert -- The Industrial Age Goes Avant-Garde] Reference

Walter Williams often stippled areas of foliage and foreground with small, even dots of colour, giving an almost pointillistic effect, which is not the same as the careful leaf delineations of H J Boddington or Edward Williams.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference

This page about an auction of many of the pointillistic drawings of people from the Wall Street Journal makes me want the hedcut of Esther Dyson: I want to print a few thousand and sell them to all the ICANN at-large members as dartboards.    From Wordnik.com.  [club, read, research, art, film] Reference

Tilson-Thomas gave a short lecture before the piece that was graceful and informative as he explained what to listen for in terms of its "pointillistic rhythms," and the fact that it was an "attractive" piece, and then he introduced the harpsichord soloist Elizabeth Chojnacka, for whom the music had been written by the composer in 1984.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elisabeth Chojnacka, Goddess of the Modern Harpsichord] Reference

The harp part is still largely a Salzedo homage, but sparse and pointillistic where "Bariolage" is dense and virtuosic (to make another jazz analogy, if "Bariolage" is Art Tatum, Mosaic is Count Basie), while the instrumental groups that form the ensemble, three winds and four strings, tend to function as self-contained groups, tiling in the music in reference to the title.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference

The music constantly juxtaposes the sustained and the pointillistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page]

There is a pointillistic attention to social class, along the lines of England or India.    From Wordnik.com.  [California Literary Review] Reference

Burton takes a patient solo, before Metheny plays some pointillistic guitar on this ballad.    From Wordnik.com.  [Music and More] Reference

The piece is scored for a chamber ensemble, and the instrumental accompaniment can be scattered, even pointillistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [SFGate: Top News Stories]

Cline's multiple percussion effects furnish an unsettling sweep echoed by the plucked and bowed strings and Melford's pointillistic piano.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference

The very air seems to shimmer, thanks to Robert Rauschenberg's vibrant pointillistic backdrop and unitards, and Morton Feldman's delicate instrumental score.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page]

Omaggio a Burri allows a long look at Sciarrino's pointillistic preferences, consisting for these 13 minutes of dots and shots, sighs and small mammalian squeaks.    From Wordnik.com.  [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference

Ms. Styron's ardent, sophisticated and entirely winning memoir, "Reading My Father," is a pointillistic accounting of the drama that brewed throughout her young life.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

"VRC #9," on the other hand, organizes the improvising with predetermined structures, including pointillistic stop-start blurts and a spinning lick that gets faster every time it repeats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicago Reader] Reference

The startling beginning, with horns playing in their highest register, continues with a pointillistic motivic development that integrates the virtuoso horn into a percussive orchestral tapestry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference

They dealt in knickknacks, and their trivialities were as far from creating a unified impression as were the pointillistic puzzles of modern painters and the word hashes cooked up by the decadent poets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Là-bas] Reference

In writing that eschews all but the subtlest emotions, there is something elegiac about the way people come briefly into focus, only to blur back into a backdrop so pointillistic it appears almost clear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Al-Ahram Weekly Online] Reference

Mr. Schick, who more typically wields percussion mallets than a baton, but who is part of the growing list of percussionists-turned-conductors, oversaw skillfully balanced performances of those works and the pointillistic, partly electronic.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

Cemal's long, serpentine solos slither over percolating rhythms played on the darbouka, an ancient hand drum; clarinet arrives in vocalic sobs, chuckles, and sighs; and lightning-quick improvisations on the kanun, a type of zither, are marvels of pointillistic melody.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicago Reader] Reference

I missed it, but I didn’t miss the influence of his pointillistic, interlocking patterns.    From Wordnik.com.  [SXSW: Steve Reich, in Interview and Influence - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

I processed a bargeload of ‘em myself, printed some on both Ciba and Kodak paper. 60s Ektachromes were a little pointillistic, but E6 really sharpened the film up in the 70s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tuesday, Feb. 24 – The Bleat.] Reference

" In " The Empty Hours, " a pointillistic piano part evokes both the ticking of the clock and the act of typing on a laptop, while a choir comments on the woman ' s thoughts and lends voice to them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Music of Modern Mania] Reference

Ldquo;All I can say is Seurat’s ‘Sunday in the Park’ is a mega-trip,” said aging hippie, Jerry Steuben. “You haven’t known groovy madness until you walk along the island of La Grande Jatte with everything in those little pointillistic dots.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [People Can Walk Through Great Paintings! | Impact Lab] Reference

Ford and GM, all that pointillistic-detail verisimilitude), it has evolved into a self-contained, porous, expanding-contracting hologram held in place by Don Draper's moods and.    From Wordnik.com.  [the latest from teenvogue.com] Reference

Prokofiev's pointillistic scores.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Orleans Saints Central] Reference