How to Use impressionistic in a Sentence

impressionistic

adjective

• He wrote an impressionistic account of the battle scene.
• Long gone is the impressionistic close-up of a sweaty mixed salad.
  — Nick Paumgarten, Bon Appetit, 31 Mar. 2017
• 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
• 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
• Look at the impressionistic hop-skip through the events of the first Souvenir movie, like turning the pages of a photo album and dwelling on the memories brought to mind by each image.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 14 Dec. 2022
• 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
• Even the 30-year-old singer’s impressionistic lyrics are best absorbed through the same dichotomy.
  — Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2022
• As a teen, he was inspired by the impressionistic paintings of Leonid Afremov.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2023
• At the end of its nearly 2 and a half hours, the new script now on stage at the History Theatre has touched on those themes and more in an impressionistic and ethereal fashion.
  — Dominic P. Papatola, Twin Cities, 20 Mar. 2017
• 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
• The movie's flashbacks, however, are rendered in black and white, recalling the more sober and impressionistic work Van Gogh drew back in the Netherlands.
  — J.r. Jones, Chicago Reader, 19 Oct. 2017
• Those questions led me to choose the impressionistic tone poem of a documentary Faya Dayi as my No. 1.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 14 Dec. 2021
• And Bruce [Miller] really embraced that idea, that for Samira to be sort of impressionistic.
  — Rena Gross, Billboard, 5 June 2018
• For instance, Gwen's home (Earth-65) has the look and feel of impressionistic watercolors, where the colors shift in response to Gwen's emotions.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 Dec. 2022
• The lyrics — dreamlike and impressionistic — have been pored over for decades, dissected for meaning.
  — Mark Kennedy, Dallas News, 19 July 2022
• The Italian broke with finely detailed techniques of the era for looser, impressionistic brushstrokes that invited one’s eye to fill in the specifics.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Sep. 2021
• 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
• One travels to a new city to correct assumptions, to pave over impressionistic fragments with the real deal.
  — Sloane Crosley, Travel + Leisure, 1 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
• The Elephant 6 Recording Co. may be as wide-ranging and impressionistic as its namesake, but the film wrestles with the need for a narrative focus.
  — Marc Hogan, Pitchfork, 25 Aug. 2023
• 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
• Close was also the painter behind the nearly impressionistic portrait of Bill Clinton in the gallery that, at 9-by-7 feet, is even larger than the Lansdowne Washington.
  — Roger Catlin, Smithsonian, 28 Sep. 2017
• Bridgerton feels like it’s steeped in the sound of French impressionistic romantic music.
  — Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 June 2023
• To be fair, the film's structure is the work of Joyce Carol Oates, whose impressionistic 2000 novel Dominik pulls his source material from.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 16 Sep. 2022
• His lyrics are, as always before, made up of impressionistic snippets that feel like inside jokes.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 1 Sep. 2017
• 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
• It’s here, in the narration, that the novel finds itself — in the equable plainness of its language, a plainness that is nevertheless impressionistic and light-filled.
  — Samantha Harvey, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2020
• For darker drone and impressionistic visuals to match, surrender to the disarming atmospheric odysseys of the long-running Canadian collective Godspeed You!
  — Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 4 Sep. 2024
• This impressionistic approach was important in charting Kate’s emotional arc during her redemptive mission to tame these monsters through a combination of intuition and science.
  — Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 22 July 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024