word painting
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They assiduously avoid the “I” word, painting the committee’s work as garden-variety oversight.
From Washington Times • Sep. 18, 2019
In typical fashion, Handel uses word painting to reinforce the message, sending the vocal part through elaborate undulating runs on the word “changed.”
From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2015
Accredited institutions are invited, even encouraged, to borrow, say, a simple Christopher Wool word painting or a monumentally complex tapestry of woven metal bits by El Anatsui.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2015
Vivid word painting and a dramatic vocal line complemented the surrealist texts, sung with conviction by Ms. Shelton.
From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2010
If the painting of Schriner made in the price of that mule, a difference of fourteen thousand, nine hundred, ninety-eight dollars and seventy cents why is not word painting worth something?
From Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures by Bain, George W.
