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  • noun Plural form of skyscape.

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  • As Lovecraft made starkly and resonantly clear in his personal correspondence, and also in his "Notes on the Writing of Weird Fiction," he wrote horror fiction as a means of capturing and crystallizing his lifelong impressions of an infinite, transcendent reality that seemed to peer through the cracks of the world, which for him included skyscapes and vistas of architectural beauty.

    Archive 2010-03-01 2010

  • As Lovecraft made starkly and resonantly clear in his personal correspondence, and also in his "Notes on the Writing of Weird Fiction," he wrote horror fiction as a means of capturing and crystallizing his lifelong impressions of an infinite, transcendent reality that seemed to peer through the cracks of the world, which for him included skyscapes and vistas of architectural beauty.

    Dark Awakenings and Cosmic Horror : The Lovecraft News Network 2010

  • We planned flying cars, futuristic skyscapes — the whole nine yards.

    Interview With Jonathan Mostow, Surrogates Director » DVDs Worth Watching 2010

  • Although there is no shortage of sunshine in any of those Northern cities during the summer, it is as if the brooding skyscapes of the northern autumn spoke to his soul, while his uncle warmed in the caresses of a southern sun and an azure sky.

    Waning Genius in Venice Bruce Anderson 2010

  • Further up the California coast, photographically speaking, are the remaining Skies in Color pictures, an untitled series of moody skyscapes as seen through the windows of an abandoned lifeguard station at Zuma Beach in 1977-78.

    Trained Toward the Heavens Arnie Cooper 2011

  • Much could be said about skies in art—from Tiepolo's Baroque skyscapes to the fogs so essential in many Chinese paintings.

    Cirrus Concerns Peter Pesic 2011

  • Spangling reds are making the skyscapes red in the landfall and making it brimstone fantastic to walk about the landfall, then you see something in the landfall, as you walk through the soliloquys of it.

    Parajanov Contra Zizek (oder selbst proclaimed Brechtian Beast Z vs aSublime moving picture for magnitude of efficacy.) 2010

  • Unfortunately, though, we have pushed Jack and Shana's Point-Counterpoint shtick to its logical extreme, forever finding ways to transform little fissures into great canyons and entire skyscapes into bright light and abject darkness.

    Trippi, Edwards Campaign Respond To Adviser Who Slammed Blogosphere 2009

  • En suite photos of skyscapes and city scenes have been specially commissioned from local artists.

    Hot Spot: Hotel LKF, Hong Kong 2008

  • The vast earth - and skyscapes by Taymor, scenic designer Richard Hudson and lighting designer Donald Holder have the burning intensity of paintings by a master of color like Mark Rothko.

    A Magic Kingdom 2008

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