Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who values precision; a purist.
- noun A painter whose work is marked by precisionism.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
precisianist .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who values
precision .
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Examples
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The ascendancy of the Steichen sensibility emerged only in the 1940s, when the precisionist-inspired realism of John Rawlings, whose crisply defined color images, at once sharp and subtle (Dahl-Wolfe was his closest counterpart), showed the dress with more clarity and detail than had any previous Vogue photographer.
“Show the Dress” 2007
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The ascendancy of the Steichen sensibility emerged only in the 1940s, when the precisionist-inspired realism of John Rawlings, whose crisply defined color images, at once sharp and subtle (Dahl-Wolfe was his closest counterpart), showed the dress with more clarity and detail than had any previous Vogue photographer.
“Show the Dress” 2007
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The recent attack, according to reports, does not have such a large number of collateral damage and hence it can be inferred that the attacker (s) managed again to successfully penetrate her security ring and carry out a far more precisionist attack.
Who killed Benazir? 2008
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And the first detailed drops splashing at the bottom of the goblet with a scatter of spindrift, each fleck embellished with the finicky rigor of some precisionist painting.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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And the first detailed drops splashing at the bottom of the goblet with a scatter of spindrift, each fleck embellished with the finicky rigor of some precisionist painting.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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First, though Thompson casts himself as a wild man, he's also a precisionist.
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And the first detailed drops splashing at the bottom of the goblet with a scatter of spindrift, each fleck embellished with the finicky rigor of some precisionist painting.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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He painted oils of industrial buildings in a precisionist style, and he also did dainty flowers and fruits in watercolors.
Portrait of An Artist Laurie Lisle 1986
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Its phraseology, while peculiar, was utterly precise in definition 'the mind behind it was certainly of precisionist grade.
Children of the Lens Smith, E. E. 1954
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Kathryn took her first good look at the precisionist himself-or herself.
Children of the Lens Smith, E. E. 1954
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