Sentence examples for local colours from inspiring English sources

They were eager to study local colours and climates and to depict them in the settings for their imaginative stories.

He reduced the number of figures and the strong local colours traditional in 16th-century northern landscape painting, achieving a new unity of atmosphere and tone.

For a long time I most appreciated local colours in the gloaming when light was in the sky and streets were lit artificially.

Only four or five colours (and only the local colours of the object), only the brush, an empty canvas without preliminary sketches and, at most, a day to work in.

So much for clarity and local colour.

The rest of the letter is awash with local colour.

But such local colour can easily shade over into sentimentality.

As we rode on, we took in the local colour.

Her account, packed with local colour, helps readers smell the sweat on the shop floor.

Illica even traveled to Nagasaki to investigate local colour, while Puccini set about researching Japanese music.

Chopin's work has been categorized within the "local colour" genre.