Whether tinting "the air an apple green," seeming to "grind against the shadows" or falling "bronzed and buttery on the endless sweep of grazeland," or whether coming as "feathers," a "slap" or a "soft throw," it exerts a mighty influence on the people it illuminates.
The order, geometry, and endless sweep of landscapes at Versailles and Vaux-le-Vicomte are the conceptual underpinning of his oeuvre.
Doyle found that the beauty of her environment the endless sweeps of land, the orange-red rocks, the traditions that stretched back thousands of years inspired her to write.
The town might be mired down by boisterous hen and stag parties, dilapidated shops selling old toys bleached white by the sun, and endless sweeps of concrete, but it has its simple pleasures, too.
This is a land where, in the vast sweep of endless steppes, you can lose yourself in quietude.
Then they'll go to bed and I'll pour a glass of wine and wait for the age of fake endless free energy to sweep over us like a wave of Aquarian beauty, ending wars for oil forever and ushering in a new era of peace and tranquility.
An army of horsemen sweeps across endless grasslands, much as Genghis Khan's Mongols did; memories of a vanished empire conflate Rome with the legend of Atlantis.
Because that same day, 2 May , 1997 after a generation of Thatcher and seemingly endless Tory rule, Tony Blair swept to power for the first time with his glossy smile and transfixed me with his swagger.
(First step: admitting the problem, right?) Of course, I wouldn't exactly call it a problem per se, but I'm sure the endless daydreams of being swept off my feet and finding my person don't exactly help my cause.
Then stairs hewn in stone led to Harney's summit hut and its final ridge of rock, a granite sweep over an endless woods, a perch floating above the slopes of the first real mountain I'd ever climbed.
The air was wintry but the day was bright, and I rode with the windows down, not minding the cold and dust as Gõtterdämmerung clouds swept shadows across endless sage.
