Sentence examples for lush descriptions from inspiring English sources
Last year in these pages, Adam Kirsch admired the collection's "richly sensual images" and "lush descriptions".
His lush descriptions of the locales remind me of the time I spent in India during my youth.
Graver's past fiction has been enriched by its roots in the landscapes of upstate New York and New England, by her lush descriptions of the natural world.
When Claire washes up on a foreign shore, brutal, utilitarian sentences give way to lush descriptions of nature: "The slate gray sea roiled, scraping the narrow strip of sand rhythmically, tugging at the beach grass, digging and sucking loose the rocks at the shore's edge".
In this charmingly ardent memoir, Baraton spices things up with advice on the gardens' best hidden corners for trysting, lush descriptions of nightfall in the royal groves, and soulful odes to the mighty fallen (trees, kings, and previous gardeners-in-chief).
LA Times: "As always, he fills his pages with wonderfully precise character studies and lush descriptions of the physical landscape.
The characters are unexpectedly prickly and yet the lush description and layered personalities make it a wonderful read.
The evil brilliance in the scheme was that each establishment was marketed as independent – offering the finest in seafood or in paella or in New American or in authentic Naples cuisine – and my job, the most shameful I've ever had, was to stand before one of those restaurants with a menu in my hand, to court each potential customer with a lush description of the food.
That's just the opening premise of this dreamy, fantastical novel packed with lush description as Luisa recounts her first encounters with the darkly enrapturing Tomás, interchanged with scenes of her new life on the beach, where she becomes increasingly intertwined with others' lives.
It depicts a battle of wills between the mercurial, eponymous heroine and a rancher, with lush, prolix descriptions of the great plains – the llanos – cowboys and spirits.
Or the lordly, arrogant Pozzo (Mr. Goodman), his booming authority fading as he finishes a lush pastoral description and says: "I weakened a little toward the end.
