The word 'wintry' is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it to describe a cold, bleak season, like winter, or to describe something that is reminiscent of winter, like a wintry chill. Example sentence: The air was wintry and still as I walked down the empty street.
GRAN CANARIA If wrapping up warm for wintry romance isn't your thing, escape for a week in the Canary islands, where winter temperatures are usually around 20C. Gran Canaria, with its rolling sand dunes and lush palm plantations, has a stark beauty and, perhaps more importantly, a smattering of slick spa hotels.
Why not create an atmospheric, wintry scene of your own using model railway figures and miniature Christmas trees?
The city's Safety Advisory Group called an extraordinary meeting today to discuss the implications of the ongoing wintry conditions gripping much of the country.
On a wintry February weekend it's barely recognisable from its summer incarnation as tourist honeypot, and it's possible to do the spectacular walk over the cliffs to the Durdle Door without seeing another person.
There's even a transformation scene, in which Jeffries is trimmed of his long, white tangles of hair – the clippings, in the elegant direction by Roger Michell, mirroring the snowfall of the earlier wintry death scenes – and has the neat sides dyed in order to become unrecognisable from the face defamed on front pages.
Past shows have featured the monolithic concrete and glass sculptures by Cristian Andersen; stop-motion nightmares from Cristóbal León; and installation, video and photographs from Katrina Daschner such as the sexually charged Murderess series featuring hooded, axe-wielding women in bleak, wintry forests.
The Winter's Tale begins in wintry Sicilia, where King Leontes's sudden and unjustified mistrust of his wife Hermione and his friend Polixenes sets in train a devastating train of events.
The Star Tribune reports that experts believe the same system that brought the wintry weather blew the rust-coloured bird off its migratory course.
The beauty of this variant surely has to do with the paradox of thaw figured as restraint or retention, and the wintry notion that cold, frost and snow might themselves be a form of gift – an addition to the landscape that will in time be subtracted by warmth.
The area is in for more wintry weather.
The orchestra rode the changes in mood, from mild to a wintry blast, the second Adagio movement gliding forward like a supermodel on rollerskates.
