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Recent Examples of impressionistic
That subjective style—intense, impressionistic, and brutally candid—makes Dispatches one of the most influential pieces of war reportage ever written.
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Literary Hub, 19 Dec. 2025
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
For cinematographer Adolpho Veloso, the key was creating an impressionistic quality that would place the viewer in a contemplative state.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 13 Nov. 2025
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
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Literary Hub, 19 Dec. 2025
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
For cinematographer Adolpho Veloso, the key was creating an impressionistic quality that would place the viewer in a contemplative state.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 13 Nov. 2025
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
See All Example Sentences for impressionistic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for impressionistic
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Like a director manning a film dolly, Kehlmann pans from one perspective to another—including those of Greta Garbo and Louise Brooks, two glamorous actors whom Pabst discovered—to give an expressionistic sense of the people and the forces shaping his life.—
The Atlantic,
The Atlantic,
4 Dec. 2025
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In nearly all these cases, there remains a sense of the uncanny, which makes the more recent works in the restaged show noteworthy for their comparably insistent, sometimes expressionistic representation of a warped realism.—
Tim Griffin,
Artforum,
1 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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The resulting rich visual swirl of colors and shapes looks like a dynamic impressionist painting.—
Leslie Katz,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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Photograph by Evelyn Freja A stroke of inspiration led the boundary-pushing vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater to pair up with the impressionist pianist Bill Charlap.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
19 Dec. 2025
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The production is naturalistic, with bits of expressionist neo-noir worked in when a crime is being described.—
Television Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Jan. 2026
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One of music’s greatest cosmic ironies is how ground zero for the expressionist rage known as death metal is located in easy driving distance from the Most Magical Place on Earth.—
Kory Grow,
Rolling Stone,
19 Nov. 2025
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“Impressionistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impressionistic. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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