Definitionn. the quality of being strikingly expressive or vivid
Last update: June 13, 2015
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The hill is crowned by the ruins of the old citadel, which add to the picturesqueness of the view; but the town is not well built, its streets being narrow and many of its houses constructed of sun-dried mud bricks; there are, however, many fine remains of Graeco-Roman and Byzantine architecture, the most remarkable being the temple of Rome and Augustus, on the walls of which is the famous Monumentum Ancyranum (see Ancyra). [Please select]
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The picturesqueness and romance of the war of picture books were missing. [Please select]
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It had a piquancy and a picturesqueness that, thank God, are to be restored. [Please select]
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To dangle from a cross-tree like a half-filled bag offended all instincts of picturesqueness, and first and last he had been picturesque. [Please select]
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Flowers, incense, music, the faithful with their foreheads in the dust, all contributed to the picturesqueness of the scene. [Please select]
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"Modern clothing certainly does take the picturesqueness out of some of us," answered Mr. [Please select]
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The poem caught me when a child by its refrain and weird picturesqueness. [Please select]
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All had been ready for two days, and the general enthusiasm had seized upon the occasion with an adventurous picturesqueness, in keeping with this strange elevation of a simple British captain to royal estate. [Please select]
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His imagination, in casting off its first impression, was inclined to exaggerate Alice's beauty and to dwell upon its picturesqueness. [Please select]
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