pointillist
- a word derived from pointillism.
Example Sentences
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Here the banners are rendered with the utmost economy, pared down to billowing blocks of color that seem to float above the road below, dwarfing the pointillist pedestrians who stroll beneath them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
Her own pointillist lyrics and made-for-moodboards underwater imagery captured her peers’ ambient loneliness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2024
In one form of batik-making popular on Java, artisans apply wax to fabric with pointillist precision, dripping the dye-resistant liquid from a narrow copper vessel.
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2023
This episode vividly demonstrates the "Better Call Saul" writers and director's aptitude for creating pointillist portraits of Kim and whoever Jimmy is at any moment.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2022
The individual effect of a gene, Fisher argued, was like a dot of a pointillist painting.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
