Sentence examples for verdant park from inspiring English sources
For Tom Platt at advocacy group Living Streets, "walkability" trumps a verdant park or pretty canal any day.
A verdant park in the center of Milan, Giardini Pubblici Indro Montanelli has a running route of about 1 mile.
One sees the promise of the specifically Japanese landscape basic to the Momoyama and Edo screens in a distinctive Kamakura mandala that depicts two shrine complexes in a verdant park.
It was early evening before we entered the long, verdant park and recreation zone which heralds the approach of Linz, Austria's third-largest city and next year's European Capital of Culture.
On a plaza under high, neo-Classical stone arches, with a verdant park and a spraying fountain beyond, a woman in a shimmering gown and a man in a dark suit perform a stately dance, while more than 60 little figures and 4 dogs, painted with varying degrees of resolution, lounge in a happy-sad utopia of privileged indolence.
One stretch I would even venture to say stands among the world's most outstanding urban runs: a course from the city hall right in the heart of Paris to the Bois de Vincennes, the rambling verdant park on the city's eastern outskirts.
The Speedway covers 433 verdant, park-like acres, five miles from the center of town.
It was not Nairobi's perfect climate nor the new road construction nor this city's verdant parks that impressed him.
The luminous scenes of verdant parks and splendidly attired people — between 12 and 19 inches deep and up to 138 feet long — were backlighted with natural daylight, wound between spindles and viewed in a boxlike precursor to the television, often accompanied by music or narrated by Carmontelle himself.
Made to adorn haut-bourgeois homes, they embody an ideal of the best life new money could buy, one filled with verdant parks and country gardens, gift-wrapped tots and fusspot nannies, with a classical nymph thrown in here and there for tone.
WHAT YOU'LL FIND Turtle Bay's federation of enclaves includes some oases: Climb 42 granite steps from First Avenue and 43rd Street to the elevated, compact Tudor City complex, where 11 tall co-ops, with terra cotta centaurs, crowns and rosettes across their facades, surround two verdant parks.
