(1) The tunes weren't quite as easy and lush as they had been, and hints of dissonance crept in.
(2) Adjoining his office, in the green room where Nicolas Sarkozy married Carla Bruni, Hollande settled into a lush dining chair, more elaborate than the rest around the meeting table.
(3) The tale of native American Pocahontas's love for an English captain in 17th-century Virginia and her journey to England, it made much of innocence versus colonial exploitation, contrasting the lush, wild vegetation of America with the manicured gardens of England.
(4) Look, you can see it here," he says, pointing to a long, low, flat plateau that barely rises above the palms, banana plants and rubber trees that skirt the road and hug the traditional stilted timber houses dotting the lush emerald-green countryside.
(5) Smaller Kalymnos, Kasos, Kastellorizo and Symi are less lush than their bigger companions but all have elegant harbours – a legacy of their trading past – and rocky interiors that offer good walking.
(6) And then, out of the distance rush the intricately detailed hordes, like lushly painted Games Worshop figures.
(7) From the summit, accessed via the Summit trail or a paved forest service road, visitors can marvel at the line of Cascade volcanoes to the east, the lush, green Willamette valley below and the Pacific Ocean to the west, making this one of the best places for views in the state.
(8) In Australia, the sudden flush of vegetation that followed the loss of large herbivores caused stacks of leaf litter to build up, which became the rainforests' pyre: fires (natural or manmade) soon transformed these lush places into dry forest and scrub .
(9) There was still snow in June this year in the Northern Velebit national park, which contrasts lush beech forest with more austere pine-spiked ridges, and here there is a proper day's hiking to be had, requiring detailed maps, sensible shoes and a chat with the ranger beforehand.
(10) Doubles from £84, B&B Le Gite d’Indaiatiba, near Paraty Le Gite díIndaiatiba, near Paraty Paraty has one of Brazil’s most astonishing settings, where rainforest-covered peaks spill down to bay after beautiful blue bay, so why not back off the historic centre a bit and make your way into the lush surroundings of the Serra do Bocaina mountains?
(11) Amazon shoppers searching for Lush products would instead be directed to similar products described as "lush".
(12) and MacFarlane's newest animated sitcom, The Cleveland Show , may wonder what has happened to their comic hero once they have seen him step out behind the microphone in his tuxedo to the accompaniment of Wilson's lush strings.
(13) From there it was on to Kentucky, which had a 14% poor roads rating and many well-tended arcs of asphalt swooping through lush, wooded hill country.
(14) The resort, one of the largest ever foreign investments in China, includes a 225-acre Magic Kingdom-style park with a castle surrounded by themed areas, with guests entering through a lush 11-acre garden.
(15) Samples collected from or near surface waters in a lush hardwood forest yielded four salmonellae serotypes from six culturally positive samples.
(16) Sangin's lush wheat fields and dense poppy groves soon became killing fields.
(17) Winning tip Wadi Bani Khalid, Oman You might not imagine the Middle East as a swimmer's paradise, but Wadi Bani Khalid in Oman's Sharqiyah region is a lush oasis.
(18) Henderson's acknowledged scientific hero was Jay L. Lush, with whom he studied during his Ph.D. program at Iowa State College and with whom he shared similar talents and the intuition that made both of them leaders in the field of animal breeding.
(19) Starting in a lush valley edged by high cliffs, it climbs a side valley to a rocky ridge.
(20) It was special, too, to have someone take beautiful pictures.” Those pictures promote an idyll that doesn’t seem to belong to this age, with both women wearing vintage dresses, carrying picnic baskets filled with passionfruit curd through a lush garden.
Plush
Definition:
(n.) A textile fabric with a nap or shag on one side, longer and softer than the nap of velvet.
Example Sentences:
(1) The three rooms are plush and contemporary with tartan trim.
(2) The first-floor lounge is decorated in plush deep pink, with a mix of contemporary and neoclassical decor, and an antique dining table and chandelier.
(3) Customers at her plush boutique in central Cairo are offered a choice between chocolates coated with his face and others embossed with messages of adulation.
(4) We meet in a plush Mayfair hotel suite in the early evening, by which time he is sipping a cup of Starbuck's coffee, struggling to keep his eyes open but still unfailingly polite and professional.
(5) The pictures of the former president's plush compound – his vintage car collection and fancy pheasants, the private restaurant and golf course – have struck a chord in the same way the palaces of Ben Ali and the wealth of Hosni Mubarak angered the people of Tunisia and Egypt.
(6) Meanwhile the plush London offices of all his overlapping enterprises are right across from the US embassy in Grosvenor Square, as if to taunt critics who claim he is America's poodle.
(7) While in office, Bloomberg enthusiastically oversaw the rezoning of almost 40% of New York , a process that changed once-industrial areas into plush residential zones or parks, and created public spaces.
(8) And then smile calmly at her back as she switches on the kettle and enjoy the gentle sensation of a breeze wafting through your plush and generous under-arm hair.
(9) Mary, by email Well, plush tweeds and thick knits are absolutely essential.
(10) They sport new reports, plush offices and branded mineral water far more lavish than the departments that spawned them.
(11) Risdale to the rescue JMW Solicitors is staging its inaugural corporate recovery and insolvency conference on 15 September, to be held at a plush hotel in Manchester.
(12) During his time at the foreign ministry, in a plush building on the banks of the Nile, Moussa earned considerable respect.
(13) Quite why the College of Social Work decided to stage its long-awaited official launch in the plush London premises of the Institute of Directors is an intriguing question.
(14) There is luxury marble tiling and plush sofas, and a sign on the door alerts residents to the fact that the concierge is available.
(15) Even a fox surprising you by your front door has this ephemeral effect.” Bamba Issa still exists, at least in name, but today it’s a plush-looking beachside restaurant , where inevitable systematic exploitation goes unaddressed.
(16) She's dragged herself from unloved brat to brass to millionaire (via some dead husbands, but let's be real, a good few Guardian readers would do the same if a plush three-bed Victorian terrace was their prize).
(17) They're both suited, booted and sitting in plush red armchairs.
(18) The neat and tidy doubles have tasteful plush chocolate-coloured furnishings and polished wooden floors, while the more spacious deluxe rooms with wooden beams come with fireplaces and balconies with street views.
(19) The plush mansion is in the Hancock Park district, just a few miles from the A-list havens of West Hollywood and Beverly Hills.
(20) A sequel to The Stud, The Bitch continues the story of Fontaine Khaled, who has "an Arab millionaire among her yesterdays and hard-gambling Nico for all her tomorrows", as she "calls the shots from her plush limos and black satin sheets".