loveliest

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One of the loveliest is the one Murillo caught from the depths of his own pure soul, and held long enough to transfer it to canvas to delight the people of his own day, and us of this later time who no longer see visions.

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  1. adjective Full of love; loving.
  2. adjective Inspiring love or affection.
  3. adjective Having beauty that appeals to the emotions as well as to the eye. See Synonyms at beautiful.

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  • He describes it in his diary as the loveliest island they had yet seen; its thousands of trees “seemed to reach to Heaven.” Any one who had lived long in Spain, where trees are few and small, must have taken great delight in the sight of a real forest, and so Columbus wrote much on the beauties of Haiti. —  Christopher Columbus
  • Some of the loveliest are in a room used to stow away the lumber of the church--old boards and curtains, broken lanterns, candle-ends in tin sconces, the musty apparatus of festival adornments, and in the midst of all a battered, weather-beaten bier THE PIAZZA OF PIACENZA The great feature of Piacenza is its famous piazza--a romantically, picturesquely perfect square, surpassing the most daring attempts of the scene-painter, and realizing a poet's dreams. —  New Italian sketches
  • I, I had done this; out of the most miserable I'd made the loveliest--and for a paltry five dollars. —  Greener Than You Think
  • Everything was at its loveliest, and the Mall just across the street was resplendent in beauty. —  A Little Girl in Old Boston
  • It introduces the trio of the Angels, "Lift thine Eyes to the Mountains," sung without accompaniment,--one of the purest, loveliest, and most delightful of all vocal trios. —  The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers
 

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