(n.) Assemblage of scenes; the paintings and hangings representing the scenes of a play; the disposition and arrangement of the scenes in which the action of a play, poem, etc., is laid; representation of place of action or occurence.
(n.) Sum of scenes or views; general aspect, as regards variety and beauty or the reverse, in a landscape; combination of natural views, as woods, hills, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) American Horror Story is a paean to the supernatural whose greatest purpose is letting washed-up actors and pop stars chew the scenery on the way to winning awards .
(2) The stunning Mattmark lake above Saas Almagell The scenery is like I'd imagine a TV advert for anti-depressants.
(3) If you record the background scenery then you would lose the sense of depth and so if you look very carefully at the invisible skyscraper you would essentially just see the picture on the wall.
(4) Jack Nicholson , in the first of his great over-the-top performances of the 80s, doesn't just chew the scenery – he swallows it whole.
(5) Getting to somewhere this remote involves a lot of driving, but the scenery is consistently, well, scenic.
(6) The route passes through the wild scenery of the West Coast national park , full of flowers in the summer, and after a few hours you emerge on a peaceful crescent of white sand.
(7) David Freese was also brought in with the idea that a change of scenery would potentially help him live up to all that early promise.
(8) Covering much of Mount Desert island off the coast of Maine, the park has spectacular scenery with craggy inlets and rolling hills.
(9) "Kenton was one of those persons, of whom there are many, who find the contemplation of scenery very boring."
(10) Diffident technically, she none the less doggedly pursued the detail of the execution of her scenery and costumes: she got what she needed.
(11) If history isn’t your thing, the park also offers plenty of coastal scenery, including eight miles of hiking trails to secluded coves.
(12) Set on the side of a shallow green valley of fields, coppices and orchards, Rakinice is an astonishingly beautiful spot, but you cannot eat the scenery.
(13) Home to both perhaps the most gorgeous scenery on earth and some of its poorest people.
(14) If you bring something humanmade into that scenery, it’s not just about nature, but about our role in that landscape.” Nordby conceived the idea for SALT, which she founded along with cultural entrepreneur Erlend Mogård-Larsen, in 2010 while the pair were curating the Lofoten International Art Festival.
(15) In east Yorkshire, Kevin Rushby enjoys the world-class coastal scenery around Flamborough Head , while across the Dales, kayaking is a great way to enjoy the vast tidal sands of the Cumbrian coast .
(16) In fact, many of his motifs from Åsgårdstrand are as sublime as the scenery that surrounded him.
(17) • Iceland’s people, wildlife and scenery is the subject of Iceland – Land of Ice and Fire, broadcast at 9pm, Friday, 1 May, BBC2 • This article was amended on 30 April 2015 to adjust the approximate amount of time it takes to drive between Hella and Reykjavik.
(18) Weather, scenery, customer service, food: all worse.
(19) Austin, a music teacher from Northumberland, moved here 24 years ago because "all the things I thought important in life seemed to be here: beautiful scenery, no pollution, clean water and kind of authentic, old-fashioned life-style."
(20) It charts the growing interest in the scenery of the Lakes and in the Romantic sensibility.
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.