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  • Picturesque is a means of adding frame and shadow effects to images.

    Delicious – in more ways than one « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2009

  • This style was the beginning of what came to be an obsession with the Picturesque, meaning, "like a painting."

    Genius Loci: the Spirits of Place Heather McDougal 2007

  • This style was the beginning of what came to be an obsession with the Picturesque, meaning, "like a painting."

    Archive 2007-07-01 Heather McDougal 2007

  • Right up there with 'Picturesque'...well I have a lot of words I like.

    Stockholm, Anam, Tyler& Oyeyemi, repeating mistakes, Prince Harry's expensive life & biting back an acerbic response uknaija 2007

  • Among living artists, Ben Nicholson turned to Mondrian, Henry Moore to Arp, and Pasmore to the Constructivists, while Graham Sutherland brought a "Picturesque" view of nature back into fashion.

    Tragedian Richardson, John 1965

  • It was evident that the young man (and he was very young -- perhaps about nineteen or twenty) indulged that coxcombry of the Picturesque which is the sign of a vainer mind than is the commoner coxcombry of the _Mode_.

    Ernest Maltravers — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Native idiosyncrasies such as Picturesque and Romantic ideals, the National Trust and National Parks are organically bound to the area.

    The Economist: Correspondent's diary 2010

  • (and he was very young -- perhaps about nineteen or twenty) indulged that coxcombry of the Picturesque which is the sign of a vainer mind than is the commoner coxcombry of the/Mode/.

    Ernest Maltravers — Volume 03 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Picturesque Bath, England, is home to Richard Bertinet's five-day course, which enthusiasts say will revolutionize the way you think about bread.

    Fall for Food Vacations 2011

  • The flow of visitors swelled when the Napoleonic wars stopped continental jaunts and the "Lakers" were much mocked: William Gilpin was immortalised by Rowlandson in 1812 as the over-eager pedant on his scrawny nag, sketching a lake, in The Tour of Dr Syntax in Search of the Picturesque "I'll prose it here, I'll verse it there/And picturesque it everywhere".

    A passion for painting in the Lake District 2011

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