Sentence examples for picturesque background from inspiring English sources

The Koolau's more gradual western slopes form a picturesque background for Honolulu.

But in "Art:21" the studio serves mainly as picturesque background for the artist as a uniquely creative individual.

"The mayor's in denial," he said an hour later at his own news conference in City Hall Park, with the office he would like to occupy next year in the picturesque background.

For this history is more than just a picturesque background: His grandfather might have fought in a rebel army.

The zooming traffic, picturesque background, and sweeping lens flare J.J. Abrahms would be proud lend the tantalizingly short video a genuinely lifelike atmosphere.

While the snow-capped mountain peaks make a picturesque background to this settlement near Baalbeck, in eastern Lebanon, the state of these Syrian children and their makeshift dwellings bears witness to the ugly reality.

The ones with the picturesque backgrounds ― usually a beach or some all-too-perfect nature scene ― and dreamy script fonts telling you, "Mood: wanna move to a new city and start a new life" or "Let's change our names and start a new life somewhere on the other side of the world".

Amalfi is now one of the important tourist resorts in Italy, noted for its mild climate and splendid coastal scenery, with high precipices and a background of picturesque hillside houses.

These and other thinkers have engaged worldwide in real and fruitful dialogue with leading members of the discipline, transcending limitations imposed by "borders", background traditions and picturesque restrictions.

But the backgrounds are unavoidably picturesque, at least for an American viewer, and they place the show in the recently fertile field of distinctly regional British and Irish mysteries: "Vera and George Gentlyly" in Northumberland, "Single-Handed" in Connemara.

"It's very picturesque, with the castle in the background.