Sentence examples for picturesque of from inspiring English sources

The more picturesque of the two canals is the Naviglio Grande.

Movement is meant to express, the rise and fall, the advance and recess, with other diversity of form, in the different parts of a building, so as to add greatly to the picturesque of the composition.

By far the most picturesque of all its treasures is the ice-white Lake Palace which appears to float in the middle of the deep azure waters of Lake Pichola.

Most of the ancient city of Smyrna was destroyed in a fire in 1922 so this is not the most picturesque of cities. (Many visitors whizz through on their way to Ephesus and Pergamon).

The 1790s was the decade of the picturesque, of Gilpin's Tours, Cotman's watercolours of distant vistas and rushing rivers and the moralised scenes of rural poverty in George Morland's prints of cottagers.

After a brief, almost whimsical interlude in the Scandinavian picturesque of the 1951 Festival of Britain, bomb clearance and cheap housing were a gift to the heirs of Le Corbusier.

The Lake District is recognized as one of the most picturesque regions of England because of its mountains and rolling hills.

Shamir Palmer was shot eight times by police this August among the lush pines of Summerville, a picturesque suburb of North Charleston.

One of the older and more picturesque cities of the nation, it contains a colonial church.

These can be booked in the picturesque resort of Bled, the most attractive of Slovenia's many lovely towns.

The picturesque village of Staplegrove sits on the outskirts of Taunton.