Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A painter who follows the methods of pointillism.
- Of or relating to pointillism or the pointillists; exhibiting pointillism.
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- adjective of, pertaining to, or in the style of
pointillism - noun An
artist who paints in this style
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- noun a painter who uses the technique of pointillism
- adjective of or relating to pointillism
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Examples
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Perhaps, in pointillist fashion, I can flesh out some of the strengths and weaknesses I see in greater detail in a future post. stuart
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So what I have here is kind of pointillist and jittery, little glimpses of characters doing things.
there is a crack in everything. that's how the light gets in. ashacat 2008
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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.
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"The small print forms a kind of pointillist picture, individual human stories which add up to the whole," says Keith Jeffery, whose official history of the British Secret Service, or MI6, comes out in September.
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It’s true that blog writers don’t have to construct long chains of reasoning all at once — a form of mental discipline that is rapidly fading from the world — but they can and do construct robust, interesting arguments in a kind of pointillist fashion, with a supporting bit of evidence here, an alternative argumentative gambit there, etc.
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A large portion of the splendid photographs were taken by experts for the author and appear here for the first time ” some in color; they are supplemented by the extraordinary drawings of Barbara Boehrs done in a kind of pointillist technique which greatly reduces the distortions of earlier "facsimiles."
Dim Beginnings Ackerman, James 1963
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In the second half of the album, "Bcuz" is a brilliant confluence of zany pointillist melodies, swelling choruses and clever brass licks.
Daniel J. Kushner: Audio Outliers: Rediscovering Recent Gems in Experimental Music Daniel J. Kushner 2011
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The plantings at Powell are mostly pointillist and polychromatic.
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His legislative affairs people must think small pieces of legislation add up to a large pointillist portrait of political meaning.
Perry and Romney's First Face-Off Peggy Noonan 2011
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Why blame America's distress on its deepening inequalities when someone doing a pointillist inspection of the remonstrants in Zuccotti Park can write that an organizer there was behaving as if "All occupiers are equal - but some occupiers are more equal than others" ?
Jim Sleeper: Behind The Snarking About OWS Jim Sleeper 2011
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