impressionistic
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It’s a great example of the more impressionistic lyrics on this record; they’re still telling the same kind of stories but with more compression, more editing, retaining what’s essential and rejecting anything extraneous.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026
It’s a song about feeling disconnected from herself and the world during her life as a performer, with an impressionistic arrangement that speeds up, slows down, builds in density and then falls away.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Hopkins weaves in old Welsh folk tunes and nods to impressionistic inspirations like Vaughan Williams and Frederick Delius.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
The adventurous English musician issues a meditative album of impressionistic beauty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
She didn’t have any particular style; some of her paintings were what she called primitive, some were impressionistic and abstract, some were realistic.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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