picturesqueness

[pik-cher-esk-nis]

noun

1. the quality or state of being picturesque.

Example Sentences

It ascends to the crest of picturesqueness and of drama, and just occasionally sinks into the trough of brutality.

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The honey-colored wood panels lining the ceiling stretch all the way to the back of the restaurant, beckoning those who enter further into the picturesqueness of it all.

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It quoted at length from an October 1893 story in a Liverpool newspaper that praised L.A.’s “picturesqueness and its magnificent climate.”

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When the landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted planned Prospect Park, in the eighteen-sixties, he wrote that he prized trees “which possessed either dignity or picturesqueness.”

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“But the picturesqueness and the flowing, music-video rhythms of the editing give the film a slick, evasive feel, as if it were too cautious or too cool to confront the worst of what it’s about.”

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