How to Use impressionistic in a Sentence

impressionistic

adjective

• He wrote an impressionistic account of the battle scene.
• Those scenes serve to blend the past and present in a way that suits the film’s impressionistic style.
  — Caryn James, HollywoodReporter, 31 Aug. 2025
• Long gone is the impressionistic close-up of a sweaty mixed salad.
  — Nick Paumgarten, Bon Appetit, 31 Mar. 2017
• For me, lyrics are as impressionistic as any other aspect of the sound.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2022
• Some designs are based on geodes and some are miniature impressionistic landscapes.
  — Lyndi McNulty, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 3 Oct. 2021
• His lyrics are, as always before, made up of impressionistic snippets that feel like inside jokes.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 1 Sep. 2017
• Mann directs with a dreamy, almost impressionistic hand that feels right at home alongside his more polished later work.
  — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 9 June 2026
• There’s just not a lot lurking beneath the power of that performance, and of the show’s impressionistic style.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2023
• Shane is widely known for her impressionistic paintings of farms, flowers, and people.
  — courant.com, 14 May 2021
• The lyrics — dreamlike and impressionistic — have been pored over for decades, dissected for meaning.
  — Mark Kennedy, Dallas News, 19 July 2022
• Even the 30-year-old singer’s impressionistic lyrics are best absorbed through the same dichotomy.
  — Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2022
• Yet Nope doesn’t have a plot so much as a series of happenings that spill out in an impressionistic and arbitrary way.
  — Vulture, 20 July 2022
• While his initial work was hushed and impressionistic, Longlegs was more flamboyant with its thrills.
  — Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 7 Feb. 2025
• As a teen, he was inspired by the impressionistic paintings of Leonid Afremov.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2023
• Bridgerton feels like it’s steeped in the sound of French impressionistic romantic music.
  — Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 June 2023
• The assertion in the title seems almost trivial in an impressionistic sense.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 22 Dec. 2011
• But Nolan is interested in time less as a narrative device and more as an impressionistic tool.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 20 July 2023
• Jill Steenhuis, an impressionist painter, will also speak at the event while creating on a canvas live in front of her audience.
  — Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Mar. 2023
• Dreams of Violets can feel disjointed in spots, but perhaps not more than any impressionistic movie about a crisis.
  — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 11 June 2026
• Those who know his reputation but are put off by his tendency to act like an impressionistic painter that just happens to work in the medium of film should start with this one.
  — Michael Tedder, Esquire, 22 Feb. 2017
• The seismic data are like a sonogram of the planet, offering fuzzy, impressionistic views of the structure.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2023
• Marvel’s sketches for the film were less puerile but wholly impressionistic, and so Carter began her customary deep dive.
  — Rob Haskell, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2018
• It is reflected in the entrancing, often impressionistic visual style of the film.
  — Thom Duffy, Billboard, 24 Jan. 2023
• Impressionistic lyrics would fit this stuff, but Le Bon pokes the spacious haze with direct evocations of love and heartbreak.
  — Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2025
• The lounge on the ground floor is decked out in Toile de Laque green walls, made exclusively for the hotel, giving off impressionistic vibes.
  — Jenn Rice, Town & Country, 2 Mar. 2023
• In response, Lawrence was game, but much more impressionistic, with a style more appropriate to a public talk than to a formal debate.
  — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 5 Apr. 2011
• The style of the film is actually based on an impressionistic-style painting Stewart created of a man waking from sleep.
  — Connor Lynch, Discover Magazine, 10 Oct. 2022
• And Bruce [Miller] really embraced that idea, that for Samira to be sort of impressionistic.
  — Rena Gross, Billboard, 5 June 2018
• The early scenes of the movie are impressionistic, even vague, resembling Tony’s own shifting perceptions.
  — Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 1 Oct. 2021
• Over the years, the company has expanded its remit, finding new and impressionistic ways to sell color, and itself as the arbiter thereof.
  — Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2025