Example sentences for: impressionistic

How can you use “impressionistic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • For the visual scientist, the most compelling painting in the exhibition may be Rouen Cathedral Set V (1969) [5], a meditation on Claude Monet's mediation on Rouen Cathedral, itself a series of impressionistic paintings of the cathedral in different lighting conditions.

  • in the phrase ain't I ,” was not reflective of the facts: I knew many cultivated speakers in most parts of the U.S., and the only time I ever heard them say ain't was in jocular contexts or in virtual quotations, like She ain't what she used to be . I must admit that my evidence was entirely impressionistic, but Gove provided no statistical support for his contention, either.

  • The book under review might well have included something on the subject of exposure in one of the essays collected within its pages, for much of the material selected by lexicographers as source corpora for citations is arrived at subjectively and impressionistically--though I hasten to allow that the subjective and impressionistic maunderings of a good, experienced linguist might well be worth a motherlode of statistics.

  • This visualization, however, is necessarily impressionistic even though our assays have some precision.

  • Mrs. Dalloway's flashbacks are of the Masterpiece Theatre variety when they ought to have been less objective, more impressionistic, even if such doodling had come at the expense of a full-bore narrative thrust.


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