Rembrandtesque
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Don Miguel de Castro, a black envoy from the African kingdom of Kongo to the Dutch court, looks forbearingly out at us from under his absurd Rembrandtesque hat.
From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2018
His people are no longer elements of landscape, but Rembrandtesque, life-sized faces of those he knows well.
From Time Magazine Archive
The second, Photographer Steichen's favorite, showed the subject looming characteristically massive out of Rembrandtesque shadow.
From Time Magazine Archive
The whole crowd was now under the lee of the pavilion, and it constituted a spectacle which Denry said to himself he should refer to in his article as "Rembrandtesque."
From The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns by Bennett, Arnold
Color is not Rembrandtesque, usually, in a clean house; but is presently obtainable of that quality in a dirty one.
From On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature by Ruskin, John
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