Example Sentences

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These miraculous little things alternate between photographic precision and Whistlerian atmospheres, as in “Seascape.”

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2017

There’s nothing particularly innovative about the composition, but the casual, impulsive feel of the etched line is very Whistlerian.

From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2014

Across the way, “Rain on the River” of 1908, a sweeping view of Riverside Park, busy railroad tracks and the Hudson rendered in misty, Whistlerian grays, has an effortless ease.

From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2012

The Whistlerian landscape of Thames kept turning up in English poetry for another generation�not least in The Waste Land, with its "brown fog of a winter dawn" lying on London Bridge.

From Time Magazine Archive

Another picture, 'The Little White Girl' was exhibited about the same time, containing the germ of that paradoxical Whistlerian humour lately so fully exemplified in various places about London.

From The Gentle Art of Making Enemies by Whistler, James McNeill