Sentence examples for glorious palm from inspiring English sources
Hidden in mountain ravines south of downtown Palm Springs, the area now called simply "Indian Canyons" disguises behind its generic name one of the most unusual natural wonders in the state: thriving forests of glorious palm trees in the middle of a bone-dry, furnace-hot rocky desert.
It might once, a few aeons ago, have presented a glorious expanse of pristine sand, palm trees and azure waters, but it's now an over-commercialised dog's breakfast.
I had thought he would simply read my palms and recite a glorious future.
Brazil's gorgeous eastern coast has kilometre upon kilometre of glorious beaches, some of them small palm-lined bays, others 20km long and backed by huge dune fields piled up by the coastal winds.
At their best, films of this kind are glorious escapism, and they hold children's imaginations in the palms of their gloved hands.
And while some of the numbers, like a treacly bit in which a woman lures a proud white brute to drink from her palm, are mere conceits, the obvious care and pleasure with which the trainers treat their glorious charges (and vice versa) is lovely to see.
In "The Second Havana," David Rieff writes: The famous credit sequence of "Miami Vice" — a montage of white beaches, swaying palms, swaying female behinds, boats racing in the bay, Art Deco houses, skyscrapers surrounded by glorious topical vegetation, and beautiful birds swooping across the sky — is not pure fantasy, whatever the show itself is.
