How to Use coloristic in a Sentence

coloristic

adjective
  • But winds made magic of their melodic and coloristic episodes.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 11 Jan. 2020
  • Maria hefts her basket of green apples beside a lush tree heavy with fruit, the blues of her sweater and scarf in coloristic counterpoint.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Many canvases share the same costumes or studio props, which lend them a formal and coloristic harmony as a group.
    — Mary Tompkins Lewis, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2017
  • This wasn’t the occasion to listen for its full capabilities, but rather for shrewd coloristic choices.
    — Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 6 May 2018
  • Seven Joys beautifully exploits coloristic alignments between the brass and voices.
    — Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 18 Mar. 2018
  • Certainly there’s much of Strauss in this real showpiece — the dramatic flair, the succulent harmonies, the textural and coloristic riches.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 17 Sep. 2021
  • The orchestration is a masterpiece of coloristic and textural variety.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 28 Nov. 2020
  • What made Poulenc’s music appealing was his moderate, coloristic use of the very dissonances that made the works of many 20th-century composers so disquieting.
    — John Check, WSJ, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Landscapes, environments and models were his conduits for intense coloristic explorations imbued with strong emotional undertones.
    — Sidney Lawrence, WSJ, 22 June 2018
  • Mitchell maintains an intractable sense of movement through every twist and turn, allowing drummer Ches Smith to contribute coloristic bowing or darkly melodic vibraphone.
    — Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Portraying Amneris, Barton supplied a voice a size smaller, but with a coloristic range as vast as the character’s range of emotion, from glowing middle and upper range to strategically brassy chest voice.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 30 Oct. 2020
  • DiDonato did an impressive job of picking pitches out of clear air and delivering emotional and coloristic nuances, ably abetted by Villaume and the orchestra.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 11 May 2021
  • His flexible shaping of phrase and pulse bespoke a natural rubato that arose from within Debussy’s music rather than being imposed on it, nor was textural clarity won at the expense of coloristic detail or surging amplitude of sound.
    — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • The score is coloristic, episodic and mercurial, and the soloists, especially principal cellist Timothy Landauer, were exceptional.
    — Paul Hodgins, Orange County Register, 19 May 2017
  • In this piece, Williams offers a nod to Ozawa’s Japanese heritage with the brass section’s big bell simulations, but more intriguingly channels the type of large-scale, densely textured, coloristic orchestral works that Ozawa specialized in.
    — W. Anthony Sheppard, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2022

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