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What does paint-by-numbers mean?

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Adjective
  1. (of a picture) Made from a painting by numbers kit.
  2. (figuratively) By rote, without thought or creativity.
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Focusing on your core allows you to develop and refine your own technique, it is not a step-by-step or paint-by-numbers approach.
Some are genuinely funny, and Dante does poke fun at the paint-by-numbers approach of many contemporary films.
This isn't a paint-by-numbers deal either, with adults coddling the young theatre folk.
Some people might describe that as well-honed natural flow, whereas I think of it being cliche-ridden, paint-by-numbers rubbish.
But then, I'll look at a paint-by-numbers picture of a little kid, and it'll warm and comfort me.
Otherwise, the paint-by-numbers script is about as hard to follow as a turtle trying to cross an empty street.

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