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Meanings of painterly in English

Painterly.

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          Usage of painterly in English
          1
          For viewers, the long, still, painterly approach invites a different way of watching.
          The Guardian
          2
          These are painterly little pictures, though the colour is rather unadventurous.
          The Irish Times
          3
          Beautiful, painterly backdrops are offset by sporadic bright red arterial sprays of blood.
          The Irish Times
          4
          Pope has been lauded for the film's vivid and near-painterly camera work in Mr.
          Reuters
          5
          They attempted to give the frames the painterly look of Van Allsburg's oil pastels.
          Wired
          6
          The pictures are laid-back and good humoured, subtle and painterly.
          The Irish Times
          7
          This painterly freedom and boldness is sheer genius at play.
          The Guardian
          8
          However apparently banal, these are painterly touches of detail and heart-stopping moments of serendipitous realism.
          The Guardian
          9
          Through all the stylistic variations in his work, what didn't change was his painterly touch.
          The new yorker
          10
          Peter Clarke shunned the mid-century turn to painterly abstraction.
          The South African
          11
          Live, Harvey embellished the sombre tones with painterly flourishes and you were stilled into listening.
          The Irish Times
          12
          More importantly, however, she has a genuine painterly touch and a dimension of almost surreal imaginativeness.
          The Irish Times
          13
          What I like about the finished work is that it's more painterly than you might expect.
          The Guardian
          14
          There's a painterly wash to the isometric visuals.
          Independent.ie
          15
          In the end however, the photo-based works were always lacking enough of a certain un-foreseen painterly moment.
          The South African
          16
          Simon Norfolk gave up photojournalism so that he could record conflict in a new, more painterly way.
          The Irish Times
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