impressionistic
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For the third straight LP, he opens with a spoken-word number—“Down, Down, Stream,” an impressionistic look back at the past couple of years.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 13, 2026
Led by the subject matter, he started singing more, his dewy-eyed timbre adding emotional depth to the fragmented, impressionistic soundscapes.
From BBC • Jan. 8, 2026
What the film shows us, in what seems a very honest if impressionistic depiction, is that most of the world was not necessarily obsessed with rock and pop and quixotic campaigns to change the world.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025
Glenn Whipp argues instead that the series’ most recent run “dazzled at its best, from the revelatory, impressionistic opener to the beautiful Tina origin story, ‘Napkins.’
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2025
She didn’t have any particular style; some of her paintings were what she called primitive, some were impressionistic and abstract, some were realistic.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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