picturesqueness
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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It ascends to the crest of picturesqueness and of drama, and just occasionally sinks into the trough of brutality.
From Los Angeles Times
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.
From Seattle Times
It quoted at length from an October 1893 story in a Liverpool newspaper that praised L.A.’s “picturesqueness and its magnificent climate.”
From Los Angeles Times
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.”
From The New Yorker
“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.”
From New York Times
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