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  • Note the regal tones of Caesars Palace, the bountiful bouquet of Mandalay Place, the soft, almost abstract pointilism of Paris, all whispering, "gamble, gamble" just out of the range of consciousness as people walk to the nearest slot machine.

    Boing Boing: June 12, 2005 - June 18, 2005 Archives 2005

  • It's a physically large and imposing work, and close up seems a little like a mixture of pointilism and impressionism; it's very emotionally powerful, and is both simple and elegant.

    Back From Sydney / Archibald Prize Greg Tannahill 2006

  • It's a physically large and imposing work, and close up seems a little like a mixture of pointilism and impressionism; it's very emotionally powerful, and is both simple and elegant.

    Archive 2006-05-01 Greg Tannahill 2006

  • Cross were to realize their principle of pointilism, of which principle Seurat was to prove himself the most satisfactory creative exponent.

    Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets Marsden Hartley

  • The party will rationalize this political pointilism as necessary to maintain power in hopes of finding opportunities to aim higher again down the road.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2010

  • The party will rationalize this political pointilism as necessary to maintain power in hopes of finding opportunities to aim higher again down the road.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2010

  • Looking at LotusLive framed within the context of all the other recent Lotus initatives presents a Seurat image of pointilism, where an image is clearer at a distance, then it is up close.

    Leadership By Numbers 2009

  • As there are no more Champ Car races, and with the Lewis Hamilton Loses Brazilian Grand Prix, Becomes Youngest F1 Champ Formula One race fan Nikki Douthwaite has taken Seurat's pointilism to a whole new level, creating an eight-by-five portrait of one-engine-for-all agenda as a cost-saving measure for Formula One teams, Ferrari has threatened to get out of the F1 business entirely.

    Jalopnik 2009

  • Formula One race fan Nikki Douthwaite has taken Seurat's pointilism to a whole new level, creating an eight-by-five portrait of Lewis Hamilton out of discarded hole-punch dots.

    Jalopnik 2008

  • It’s got two modes for the guitar, like a guitar-pointilism type sound and then the makes a slow, buzzing sound and it goes through this huge delay that you can set to, like, ridiculously long, and it just cycles back.

    Disquiet » Splices That Bind 2002

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