orchid-like

Past winners of the competition have built networks of water troughs, bunches of hammocks; gigantic orchid-like seating arrangements; geo-textile thatched cooling chimneys, and a "farm" sprouting salad fixings in sonar construction tubes.

A Serious Couple's Fun Project for This Year's PS1 Beach Party Julie Iovine 2010

Not that jazz players hadn't known from the early 1940s that young Monk was a giant, and ever afterward that those odd, distinctive Monk tunes (nearly 100 of them) are the exotic orchid-like treasures of the American song book.

Christopher Lydon: Robin Kelley's Transcendental Thelonious Monk 2009

There's an orchid-like hothouse quality to him that's both endearing to his supporters and confusing to his detractors.

Bill Katovsky: Has Obama Lost His Mojo? 2008

Our way led along a winding path between banked masses of softly radiant blooms, groups of feathery ferns whose plumes were starred with fragrant white and blue flowerets, slender creepers swinging from the branches of the strangely trunked trees, bearing along their threads orchid-like blossoms both delicately frail and gorgeously flamboyant.

The Moon Pool 2004

The bright bits of red in the bushes turned out to be berries; but the turf had more than one kind of plant in it, and Kirk reached down to touch a small broad-leaved plant, like a miniature primrose, with delicate white orchid-like petals.

Doctor’s Orders Diane Duane 2000

But not being ordinary -- on the contrary, and without undue pride, denominating myself as a most extraordinary, rare, and orchid-like male creature, I feel that the appended narrative, albeit I do not figure therein as Sir Galahad or

At Home with the Jardines Lilian Bell

Her hair was wreathed in fluttering yellow orchid-like flowers, her arms and legs wound with them.

Angel Island Inez Haynes Gillmore 1921

OUR WAY led along a winding path between banked masses of softly radiant blooms, groups of feathery ferns whose plumes were starred with fragrant white and blue flowerets, slender creepers swinging from the branches of the strangely trunked trees, bearing along their threads orchid-like blos-soms both delicately frail and gorgeously flamboyant.

The Moon Pool 1919

Eugenia orchid-like against their apple-blossom rusticity; Marsh ... how tremendously more _simpático_ he had seemed this afternoon than ever before, as though one might really like him, and not just find him exciting and interesting; Neale, dear Neale with his calm eyes into which it did everyone good to look.

The Brimming Cup Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

It was Beardsley's writing that first won Oscar to recognition of his talent, and for a while he seemed vaguely interested in what he called his “orchid-like personality.”

Oscar Wilde Harris, Frank 1916