Exempel på picturesque

• It was a pretty town with a picturesque harbour and well-preserved buildings.

• The town itself is not especially picturesque.

• She lives in a very picturesque village in Suffolk.

• This part of the town is especially picturesque.

• The countryside in this region is very picturesque.

• In its worst guise, a preoccupation with the image leads to a superficial veneer of facadism, arguably a new picturesque, but one devoid of meaning.

• Likewise, a picturesque lake in the park provided an opportunity for angling.

• He was also critical of the picturesque qualities of the snaky 'stem' buildings.

• The vocabulary of the picturesque, in turn, became available for metaphorical use in other spheres.

• The forest becomes more than picturesque : it becomes dynamic.

• And in that field the crisis will not be solved by technical advance alone or by picturesque images.

• Its result was admired by many for its picturesque qualities + not one house resembled the neighbouring premises in building style and ornament.

• I introduced them only because they were more picturesque and easier to handle than gold.

• It is this subtlety that distinguishes these urban landscapes from the picturesque, highly controlled experiences of nineteenth-century parks.

• They seek out the picturesque and the unusual and plan their trip to enjoy the sense of freedom away from home and the mundane.

• So the manufactured landscape has begun to lose its industrial aesthetic and become concerned with questions of the picturesque.

• The picturesque traveller 'pursued' views whilst botanising walkers 'hunted out' specimens.

• It was both celebrated as "picturesque" and vilified as a source of contamination.

• Despite those significant and important achievements, his charming and picturesque personality was more appealing and telling than suggested merely by his biographical data.

• The illustrator intended not only to explore the picturesque aspects of the poem, but also to present his work as a painting.