gingerliness

Example Sentences

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In the cocooning fluidity of an ocean-borne day, rendered with thick-brushed painterliness and splashes of sound, we travel across flashes of community, injustice, achievement, love and despair.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2026

Mann was working with high-definition video, by Dion Beebe and Paul Cameron, that lent a matte painterliness to the images.

From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2020

That will be the numberless mosses under the older plantings, with the painterliness of their darker spaces, breathing down on me with their purest breath.

From The Guardian • Jun. 13, 2020

Because one of the things in the show you’re quickly struck by is the painterliness of the pre-digital photographic image.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 24, 2017

I can certainly see that objection; there’s a painterliness to McQueen’s compositions, all that Spanish moss reflected in shimmering bayous that sometimes threatens to muffle the film’s raw human drama.

From Slate • Jan. 17, 2014