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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Native idiosyncrasies such as Picturesque and Romantic ideals, the National Trust and National Parks are organically bound to the area.
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(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
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Picturesque Bath, England, is home to Richard Bertinet's five-day course, which enthusiasts say will revolutionize the way you think about bread.
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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".
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