The look of the film, mixing computer and hand-drawn techniques, is both simplistic and lush, calling to mind old storybooks and the famed illuminated manuscript this Irish folktale came from.
Americans thinking of New Zealand usually bring to mind lush green fields, hordes of white fluffy sheep, bungie-jumping, and hobbit-holes; a nice place, and no threat to U.S. national security.
But the real marvel is de Nangle's own back garden, not more than 100ft x 45ft, which he has turned into a jungle of tree ferns, 25 or perhaps 30 of them, soaring up from a lush green carpet of mind-your-own business (Soleirolia soleirolii) which stretches right across from one wooden-boarded boundary to the other.
We're only five minutes or so into the show, and already Gardley is "stuffing" our minds with his lush, metaphor-filled lines, which are not only a sendup of antebellum-inflected Southern locutions but a rewriting of them.
You will have to activate your own state of mind to populate the lush and empty pictures of cottages and castles in this book, which reveal no people, and name no names.
While the events of the story are limited to a matter of minutes, "KAPOW!" is a lush, rambunctious ride through a hyperactive young mind.
Like others of his utopian generation — the lush erotic fauna of Bloomsbury comes to mind — Wells subscribed to free love and open marriage, especially after his two marriages turned out to be sexually tepid.
When packaging is absolutely necessary for their products, Lush and LOLI keep the environment in mind.
Rob was a lush, an affable guy who didn't mind peddling the actor's fame to get what he wanted.
