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It’s an attempt to erase it and, like a pointillist painting, focus on only one dot while ignoring the big picture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2026
The product is like a large pointillist painting the reader is expected to complete.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025
When projected on the screen, analog film has a three-dimensional, pointillist texture called “grain,” a product of its synthetic makeup.
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2023
Rendered in a partly pointillist style, the painting shows the landmark framed by palm trees and messily overgrown with greenery.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 26, 2022
The individual effect of a gene, Fisher argued, was like a dot of a pointillist painting.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
