How to Use painterly in a Sentence

painterly

adjective

• He has a painterly eye.
• Inez loved the sky, clouds and trees and saw the world through a painterly eye.
  — courant.com, 9 May 2018
• The picture sticks in your brain, while your body responds to the painterly scene.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2022
• The downside: The artwork on the cards is a bit too painterly to be clear to the youngest chefs, and onion soup is a hard-sell to young eaters.
  — Jolene Thym, The Mercury News, 26 Aug. 2019
• Gray is painterly and exacting — some might say to a fault.
  — Jake Coyle, The Mercury News, 18 Apr. 2017
• The story is set on a reimagined earth with five clans and is rendered with a painterly look.
  — Carolyn Giardina, Billboard, 24 Aug. 2019
• Here, the ending of each day brings a different painterly scene.
  — Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
• The stage took on a painterly richness that was most arresting when the dancers, pretty much nude, slid down a ramp one by one.
  — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2017
• The five-year-old looked adorable in a colorful long-sleeve dress with an abstract painterly and floral print.
  — Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 May 2023
• And there's all of this kind of abstract painterly references to her husband.
  — Erica Huang, Scientific American, 14 Dec. 2023
• Depending on sunlight and weather, at times the ground seems to glow in a vivid painterly fashion.
  — Laura Manske, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
• Went to the place where Michael Brown was killed: a peaceful, almost suburban street touched in a painterly way with yellow.
  — Wes Moore, TIME.com, 17 Dec. 2016
• Tibi is beloved for the painterly prints and patterns that are splashed across their cult-status midi skirts and crop tops, but the brand's love for art goes much further.
  — Tara Lamont-Djite, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 June 2014
• At the same time, his painterly life could be rich with color, never more so than when suffused with the natural world.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2023
• What may be most painterly about Parker’s work is how a richness of the world seen within the frame testifies to the vastly greater richness of the world beyond it.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2019
• Tsutsumi and Kondo are known for the painterly quality of their work.
  — Terry Flores, Variety, 20 Oct. 2022
• Back for another cameo is Dries Van Noten’s statement coat, which would make any fall wardrobe come to life with its painterly brushstrokes in Klein blue, pink, and brown.
  — Talia Abbas, Vogue, 11 Sep. 2024
• Bella went for a painterly eye moment, creating a modern work of art on each lid.
  — Emily Gaynor, Teen Vogue, 14 Aug. 2017
• Then, from behind Santa Maria della Salute, the bow of a mega-cruise ship pierced the painterly scene and slowly cast its enormous shadow over the lagoon.
  — Christian L. Wright, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2017
• Above all is just the precision, the proper nouns and compound German nouns and the painterly attention to detail.
  — Daniel Torday, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 May 2018
• For years, one of the louder knocks against him (voiced by Clement Greenberg, among others) was his old-fashioned pursuit of painterly eloquence.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 13 June 2024
• Whether worn as a painterly wash all-over or dusted along the lower lashline, eye shadow tints are having a moment.
  — Karina Hoshikawa, Allure, 25 Sep. 2018
• As the stunning Murina opens, a blue expanse of water fills the frame like a painterly abstraction.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 July 2022
• Alsop took a painterly approach to Mahler’s many details — birdsong and bells, dewdrop harps, the lowing moo of a tuba.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2023
• With satisfying rhythm, the piece sets up the painterly illusion of deep space with an actual space a child could crawl through.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2019
• Here's the gist: Instead of painterly bronzing and blending, strobing seeks to define your features by using light—and light alone.
  — Lauren Valenti, Marie Claire, 18 May 2015
• Delicate morsels of hamachi are crusted in nori powder and served raw next to a painterly schmear of avocado.
  — Garrett Snyder, Los Angeles Magazine, 18 July 2017
• There are textured, painterly backgrounds; the sky subtly changes color.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2020
• Give it a little more dimension, a more painterly approach.
  — The Mercury News, 31 May 2017
• Key trends: Breezy, transparent layering; utilitarian elements; movement; fringe, fresh whites and creams; painterly prints; nautical vibes; fine-gauge clingy knits; sequins; paillettes; crochet and heavy lace; pale pastels and black and white.
  — David Moin, WWD, 11 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024