pointillist

How To Use pointillist In A Sentence

• This syncopated, pointillist, housey preview is an irresistible appetiser. Times, Sunday Times
• 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. Eleventh Hour: Nanofilms
• 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. A Blogger’s Case Against Blogs
• 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
• From inside, the Venissieux townscape becomes a Pointillist backdrop - Paul Signac rather than Georges Seurat.
• 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.
• But Foals songs were likely to spend far more time in pointillistic guitar counterpoint – a tangle turned into a syncopated grid – before the vocals arrived. CMJ Music Marathon: Artful Yelps and Tidal Waves of Sound - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
• 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. TIME.com: Top Stories
• His starting-point was the Neo-Impressionism of Georges Seurat, but instead of using Seurat's pointillist technique he investigated the interaction of large areas of contrasting colours.
• It's not pointillist, it's not cubism - it's just in-your-face, comic art.