unpicturesque

The exterior of Sherborne Church has been called unpicturesque, owing to its low central tower and insignificant pinnacles.

What to See in England Gordon Home 1923

His candor in depicting how unpicturesque but absorbing much of the world is — if only our hearts would admit what our eyes tell us — elevates him above all other 19th-century landscape photographers in some minds.

Western Development Richard B. Woodward 2010

His candor in depicting how unpicturesque but absorbing much of the world is — if only our hearts would admit what our eyes tell us — elevates him above all other 19th-century landscape photographers in some minds.

Western Development Richard B. Woodward 2010

The unpicturesque malice and boredom of the middle-class English countryside are cheerfully recounted in this broad Day-Glo comedy with brutal moments of violence; Stephen Frears directs from a screenplay by Moira Buffini, based on the Posy Simmonds comic-book series.

Tamara Drewe 2010

His candor in depicting how unpicturesque but absorbing much of the world is — if only our hearts would admit what our eyes tell us — elevates him above all other 19th-century landscape photographers in some minds.

Western Development Richard B. Woodward 2010

The hills are barren, they are dull of color, they are unpicturesque in shape.

The Grift that Keeps on Giving: Bibi's 'Innocent' Gift to Obama 2009

Weary of costume painting, I had determined to try my hand on modern life, with all its drawbacks of unpicturesque dress.

William Powell Frith - Life at the Seaside (Ramsgate Sands) Hermes 2009

I also enjoyed my skinless Coney at the Senate Coney Island, a very large Greek diner in an unpicturesque strip mall in Taylor Township, a suburb not far from Ms. O'Neill's home in Dearborn, home to America's largest Muslim population as well as the immense Ford Rouge Plant, just downriver from Detroit.

Home for Hot Dogs 2008

Agamemnon should partly conceal his face, you should have made him hide a portion of it by placing his hands over his eyes and forehead; and not with a veil, which is as disagreeable to the eye, and as unpicturesque, as it is contrary to all costume.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

It is curious to consider — and the thought occurred to me this day, when I was out for a stroll pondering over the duties of this evening, which even then were looming in the distance, but not quite so far off as I could wish — I found it very curious to consider that though the newsman must be allowed to be a very unpicturesque rendering of

Speeches: Literary and Social 2007