(a.) Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture; representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate to a picture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial; graphic; vivid; as, a picturesque scene or attitude; picturesque language.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hamish Kale Floating sauna near Uppsala, Sweden Just outside Uppsala, around one hour north of Stockholm, lies the picturesque outdoor adventure area of Fjällnora.
(2) Scarborough council said leaving the houses standing could cause a domino-effect down the steep slope above the picturesque harbour where the explorer Captain James Cook lodged and learned his seafaring skills.
(3) A general practitioner practising from 1940 onwards on the Gruyère region describes visually his former task: permanence on call, daily journeys of 80 km for house calls, often on skis or by sleigh, surgery under most primitive conditions, serious decisions taken lonely, diphtheria-epidemics, frequent tuberculosis, penicillin as a major break-through, picturesque human encounters...A lively testimony of times gone by.
(4) About 30 buildings were destroyed after tanker cars laden with oil caught fire in the picturesque lakeside town.
(5) FIVE MORE FRENCH COASTAL GEMS Marseille grotto Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy A 40-minute walk from Marseille’s Luminy university campus, Calanque de Sugiton, the most picturesque of the city’s rugged, limestone coves has blue-green waters, twisted pine trees and a narrow island-rock to swim out to known as Le Torpilleur.
(6) In an unusual move seen as evidence of their good working relationship despite their differences on key issues, Merkel invited Cameron to bring his wife, Samantha, and their three children to stay at Schloss Meseberg, an elegant baroque manor set in picturesque grounds.
(7) I like their morals … but I suspect that he doesn’t have the fire in his belly [to win the election].” Standing to Clarke’s right on the porch of the picturesque Grand Hotel, consultant Greg Behling said: “What the press tells us is that he’s geared for the long haul.
(8) The small, picturesque village of Balcombe in west Sussex became synonymous with fracking – and the opposition to it – nearly two years ago when plans emerged to test local land for oil drilling.
(9) Here are the highlights for a tour on two wheels … Best cycle route Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sunset on the sea … the coastal cycling route is the island’s most picturesque.
(10) I like the exact word, and clarity of statement, and here and there a touch of good grammar for picturesqueness" – structure was always a problem for Twain.
(11) If you're wondering who on Earth would want to watch a programme where a naked woman screams in pain as she performs the miracle of life in a picturesque locale, the answer is – a lot of people.
(12) Photography in the 1970s was dominated by people who were interested in the decisive moment, or picturesque photography – Henri Cartier-Bresson or the work of US landscape photographer Minor White .
(13) It will be many years before it is picturesque again.
(14) There is even a picturesque worker standing at ease, quietly breast-feeding his shovel.
(15) "Those who pick the apples should be able to afford to buy them," she says, watching the rise in rural poverty: "The most picturesque market towns now have food banks."
(16) Appearance: Mountains, forests, fast-flowing rivers, picturesque castles, sleepy villages, horse carts, elderly peasants ploughing land with age-old implements, blacksmiths sloshed on the deadly local brew palinka plying their time-honoured trade.
(17) Instead we have lots of ideas and lots of picturesque interpretation.
(18) President Barack Obama used an unusually picturesque appearance at Everglades National Park on Wednesday to draw attention to an ugly problem that he said was threatening the well-being of people in south Florida and around the world: climate change.
(19) It sits on the northern edge of the Mendip Hills, in the famously picturesque Chew Valley.
(20) 611 SW Kingston Avenue, japanesegarden.org Jet boat down the Willamette river Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Getty Images With a skyline marked by offices and spiralling concrete roads, Portland is not a stereotypically picturesque place.
Scenic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Scenical
Example Sentences:
(1) It was pored over by line producers, prop masters, location scouts, production designers, scenic designers, costume designers, directors, assistant directors, second assistant directors, and second second assistant directors – at each step becoming more real, as if emerging from the shimmer of some distant desert horizon.
(2) I had imagined that this would be an interesting journey, if not spectacularly scenic, since this landscape is infamously flat.
(3) The Grade II-listed scenic railway, devastated by an arson attack in 2008, has been rebuilt, wooden slat by wooden slat, back to its rickety, grinding glory.
(4) When he started studying at the Royal College of Art in London, Thorgerson shared a flat in South Kensington with his friend Aubrey Powell , who found a job as a scenic designer at the BBC.
(5) Getting to somewhere this remote involves a lot of driving, but the scenery is consistently, well, scenic.
(6) The therapeutic techniques used are psychoanalytic with special regard to the scenic figures which arise during the course of a session.
(7) Nash was heavily criticised in his day and after for preferring grandiose scenic effects over actual build quality, with cheap brick houses under the painted cream stucco, but now his developments are kept up to a sparkle by their astonishingly wealthy occupiers.
(8) The town sits next to the Ben Lomond scenic reserve, but is also marketed as “the adventure capital of New Zealand”.
(9) Kabuki as we see it today - in, for example, Shunkan or The Scene on Devil's Island, one of the greatest in the repertoire - is action-packed, scenically thrilling and histrionically flamboyant.
(10) Except for scenic highway 20, which runs east to west through the park, North Cascades is crossed by few roads – but is bisected by the US-Canada border.
(11) Kayaks and motorboats are available for rent, with scenic hiking paths heading into the hills.
(12) Two scenic pictures taken of the Andes during an all-expenses paid trip generated 19,386 and 20,462 likes.
(13) The scenic drive along Bear Lake Road skirts broad meadows full of elk grazing beneath jagged peaks.
(14) Photograph: National Trust What do you do if you hanker after a dose of solitude somewhere scenic and remote, but can no longer heft a heavy rucksack because of a dodgy back?
(15) The mayor said he envisions: “the creation of a grand waterfront park” close to the Adrienne Arsht Performing Arts Center with an “unparalleled experience of sports, recreation, arts and culture.” The site, Gimenez said, would give Beckham’s group the nine-acre stadium “footprint” it was seeking while converting underutilised land into vibrant and scenic public space.
(16) The mayor, Richard Berry, said the series highlighted Albuquerque's low-tax, sun-kissed, scenic lure to film and TV productions which have spent $416m in the past four years.
(17) There’s also retro furniture from Junk Deluxe , including decorative items crafted from pieces of the original scenic railway.
(18) Take the scenic route I've written seven shows in, what, eight years?
(19) The stadium’s supporters do not have the right to leave the nation with a legacy that will be a blight on Japan’s first officially designated scenic area,” it said in a recent editorial.
(20) With that familiar unconcerned swagger, he waited to nick the ball clear of the onrushing striker before composing a more scenic route upfield.