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Impressionistic

adjective

Of or relating to or based on an impression rather than on facts or reasoning. "She had impressionistic memories of her childhood"

Relating to or characteristic of Impressionism. Synonym: impressionist.

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"Impressionistic" Quotes from Famous Books

... club grounds. The fog and mist combined to run the many lights of the Thursdale windows into a single smear of colour a few shades brighter than the darkness from which it protruded. Dauntless's heart was inside that vague, impressionistic circle of colour, but his brain was very much in evidence on the distant outside. What were the workings of that eager brain will soon be revealed—to the reader, at least, if not to the occupants ...

— The Flyers • George Barr McCutcheon

... as the scenery is concerned, I have borrowed from impressionistic painting its asymmetry, its quality of abruptness, and have thereby in my opinion strengthened the illusion. Because the whole room and all its contents are not shown, there is a chance to guess at things—that is, our imagination is stirred ...

— Plays by August Strindberg, Second series • August Strindberg

... place, Archie! I stumbled upon it a couple of years ago quite by accident and use it occasionally. The retreat of some artist who probably starved to death. When I first found the shack it was full of impressionistic studies that looked as though the poor boob stood on his head to paint. I made a burnt offering of the whole lot to outraged Nature." He opened a cupboard revealing a quantity of provisions. "Poor old Hoky was a great lover of ham; I never saw such an appetite for smoked ...

— Blacksheep! Blacksheep! • Meredith Nicholson

... England is strange, I think, because it is presented according to a purely spiritual geography in which the childish drawling of "Witney on the Windrush manufactures blankets," etc., is utterly forgot. Few men have the courage or the power to be honestly impressionistic and to say what they feel instead of compromising between that and what they believe ...

— George Borrow - The Man and His Books • Edward Thomas

... necessary, for in every direction Lucy looked her eyes were greeted with specimens of Asia's handiwork. Across the foot-board of the bed was a spray of what might have passed for cauliflower, the tin boiler was encircled by a wreath of impressionistic roses, and on the window-pane a piece of exceedingly golden goldenrod bent in an obliging curve in order to cover the crack ...

— Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch • Alice Caldwell Hegan

... and of temperament is still in its infancy. Many recent attempts at classification of temperaments rest upon as impressionistic a basis as the popular fourfold division into sanguine, melancholic, choleric, and phlegmatic. Two of the efforts to define temperamental differences rest, however, upon first-hand study of cases. Dr. June E. Downey has devised a series of tests based upon handwriting ...

— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park

... mostly," Doris replied. "If one may judge a woman by the impressionistic method, I should say that Mrs. Bland would be very ...

— The Hidden Places • Bertrand W. Sinclair

... The effect is impressionistic, like purple cows. Billy doesn't care for it, but I do. And I adore the brilliant red of the roads. Billy says he'll take good brown earth and white flocks. He might be reconciled to black sheep but ...

— The Gay Cockade • Temple Bailey

Words linked to "Impressionistic" : Impressionism, impression, impressionist