Sentence examples for screens of trees from inspiring English sources
Mr. Hartley pointed to Mr. Doig's compositions growing less "claustrophobic — screens of trees, falling snow," and more open.
His efforts to prise insights about the past from a headland in Hampshire where only the hospital's chapel and screens of trees now stand achieve a similar suggestiveness - a sense of lost worlds dragged back into view - to that of W G Sebald's spooky criss-crossing of Suffolk in The Rings of Saturn.
The road was a dead end, leading only to more big houses like theirs, secretive behind their screens of trees, some atmospheric with the half-timbering that Jane didn't yet know was a badge of inauthenticity, some with tennis courts from which the thwack of balls didn't often come.
An update to the strategy, introduced in May last year, includes several measures designed to have a shorter-term impact, including a ban on motor vehicle engine idling at priority locations, the use of dust suppressants and "green infrastructure", such as screens of trees.
Russians don't bother to hide strip mines with a screen of trees along the road to spare the feelings of motorists, as we Americans do.
Nestled behind the screen of trees is a manufacturing center originally built by the Gyrodyne Company of North America to build helicopters.
Viewed through the screen of trees, it is a moody, evocative sight, like the bass line of a slow jazz tune.
Behind them, hidden by a red brick wall and a screen of trees built on the N2, which passes south from Durban to East London, is Mandela's compound.
(He went on to paint architect-designed houses including Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation in Briey-en-Forêt Briey-en-Forêthidden Briey-en-Forêt, Francees).
The houses in these early paintings look uninhabited and desolate, and you see them through a screen of trees or underbrush, or blurred by falling snow.
Nearby at 400 Forest Avenue, look behind a graceful screen of trees (another Olmsted landscape) for the majestic, spooky towers of the abandoned Buffalo State Hospital, one of H. H. Richardson's earliest and largest Romanesque designs.
