(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.
Statuesque
Definition:
(a.) Partaking of, or exemplifying, the characteristics of a statue; having the symmetry, or other excellence, of a statue artistically made; as, statuesquelimbs; a statuesque attitude.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yet Greece are pretty ordinary, too, and when they look back at the 52nd-minute goal that handed their opponents the initiative they will kick themselves for some statuesque defending.
(2) An ancestor of Spanish flamenco, it uses lightning-fast spins punctuated by statuesque stillness, fluid arm movements and rhythmically controlled foot-stamping with percussive ankle bells.
(3) The managing director of the IMF may look like one of those statuesque silvery models who appear in Weekend's All Ages fashion pages, but she is one of the world's most powerful women, in the eye of the world's worst storm in living memory.
(4) He appears everywhere with his statuesque wife, Yulia, in stark contrast to Putin, who hid his wife for years before finally announcing their divorce earlier this year.
(5) "She was very, very tall, statuesque and really, really wanted to get married.
(6) Top tip: Every November, just before Thanksgiving, Bosque del Apache hosts the Festival of the Cranes , a five-day event celebrating the return of the statuesque sandhill cranes.
(7) Despite the statuesque Hugo star's late arrival on the scene, Uggie remains the clear frontrunner.
(8) Shaqiri turned up in the middle instead of marauding down the right and beat a statuesque Rob Elliot from a good couple of yards outside the area with a crisp shot the goalkeeper evidently did not see coming.
(9) With Jack Birkett, the bald, blind, statuesque Rambert dancer who became a primary collaborator as The Incredible Orlando, Kemp pursued work in the theatres and dance groups of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
(10) Hansberry's striking, statuesque features appeared in Vogue, while Show magazine dispatched a list of questions about Shakespeare and published her response alongside those of TS Eliot, Harry S Truman and Igor Stravinsky.
(11) Although she inherited her statuesque build from her father, neither of her parents were athletic.
(12) West Brom had been carved open and Van Persie had the goal at his mercy, yet to the relief of the statuesque Boaz Myhill the drilled low shot passed harmlessly a few inches wide of an upright.
(13) WICKET: New Zealand 96-7 Harris lbw b Zaheer 17 Zaheer pitches one outside the off stump that bites back and raps a statuesque Harris on the pads low, middle and off.