A freelancer stepped in, Alexander James Dallas, a Philadelphia lawyer whose somewhat impressionistic accounts of what occurred in the courtroom comprise all there is of an official record.

A short, impressionistic account of the two French residents encountered by the shipwrecked crew appears in Judith Schalansky's Atlas of Remote Islands (2009).

The earliest were memoirs by those known to him: often they are personal or impressionistic accounts which can be good character sketches, but factually unreliable.

Ms. Lippard spun out an impressionistic account of its complex history, as projected images of art by women streamed across the screen behind her, telling an amazing story of their own.

A Polish journalist's "fragmentary, anecdotal and impressionistic account" of the end of Portuguese rule in Angola in 1974.

Mr. Hayes oversaw the new journalism in Esquire, beginning with an impressionistic account by Norman Mailer of the Democratic National Convention in 1960.

Pilgrimage provides an impressionistic account of the central character Miriam Henderson, which is modelled on the author's own migratory life between 1891 and 1915.

But this is a truncated, almost impressionistic account that makes no attempt to present a full picture of the man or pass judgment on his ruthless behavior.

The first half of "Bitter Lemons of Cyprus" is an impressionistic account of life in a wonderful place full of good fellowship and wine.

An impressionistic account, based on solid research, of the black artist, trickster and saint whose life ended in a Paris madhouse in 1979.