Sentence examples for powerful colour from inspiring English sources

The park is lush, curvilinear in every direction, sometimes mysterious, sometimes breaking out into powerful colour.

The powerful colour scheme of turquoises, reds and shocking pinks was inspired by a trip to Mexico.

Many of these prints, such as the powerful colour woodcut Witches' Sabbath (1510) by Dürer's pupil Hans Baldung Grien, can be seen in the British Museum's exhibition.

However, though it was known in the 15th century as a powerful colour of high intensity and as an excellent pigment in terms of quality, vermilion is only used, on one hand, in the miniature, in the form of a mixture with lead white and earth pigments to give a range of colours ranging from pink to brown, as described above.

Mixed borders in the East court were replanted by Phyllis Reiss of Tintinhull in powerful hot colours when the earlier tender colour scheme laid down by Vita Sackville-West proved insipid to modern taste.

Irreverent, subversive, vibrant and open, it has taken on the powerful whatever their colour or stripe.

She also produced a number of quilts exhibiting the same powerful sense of colour and design as her paintings.

There have been enough successful and powerful Americans of colour to suggest that one person's acheivement will not radically alter the day-to-day lives of the rest.

Generally, the sense of smell in birds is poorly developed and not used in their quest for food; instead, they rely on their powerful vision and their colour sense, which resembles that of human (ultraviolet not being seen as a colour, whereas red is).

It was the Kuroshio, the "Black Stream" in Japanese on account of its dark colour, as powerful a conveyor belt in this part of the Pacific as the Gulf Stream is in the Atlantic.

Similar dashes in red and brilliant cadmium yellow flicker in the foreground; the framing effects, like theatre flats, with which Hodgkin frequently structures a painting, are impetuously painted over; the sky is hectic and hurrying, the colour contrasts powerful and unsettling.