Lushly

Featuring the first appearances of such classic Marvel characters as the Mandarin, the Black Widow, Hawkeye, the Crimson Dynamo and the Titanium Man in lushly-illustrated stories by “Dazzling” Don Heck, Gene “The Dean” Colan and scripted by no less than Stan “The Man” Lee himself, this is the go-to volume for the Iron Man fan. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The sultry magic of the fabled ship draws Kenton into its dreamworld, where a strange crew plucked from the ages sails in a lushly imagined mystical seascape. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Yet Degas's astonishing late bathers, urgently stroked in lushly colored pastel or broadly scumbled in a restricted palette of oil paint, are as radical as anything produced by the younger generation. ❋ Karen Wilkin (2011)

He was so overwhelmed by the song cycle — a sort of continuous tone poem lushly illustrated in the manner of a very dark Richard Strauss — that he paid an unannounced visit to Schoeck the next day. ❋ Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim (2010)

With its sandy bays, rocky headlands, dunes, heaths, and broad expanses of green—all silhouetted against the Irish Sea and the blue-white peaks of Snowdonia—Anglesey offered some of the most lushly beautiful scenery to be found anywhere. ❋ Christopher Andersen (2011)

The day started out with the various musicians scattered around the grounds, so that you could catch solos and larger groups as they performed in lushly green walkways, formal gardens and woodland areas. ❋ Michal Shapiro (2011)

There are some nicely understated moments and many lushly angst-y ones. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Each subject gets 4-6 pages of lushly photographed sketchbook spreads, along with a short statement in which the artists explain their own personal histories with sketching and what compels them to sketch. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If I couldn't aqua garden java moss, what hope was there for a lushly planted tank upstairs (which is my dream)? ❋ Lyda222 (2009)

Ms. Solé's lushly colorful and formally striking images are restless. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Over in the upper-class Dokki part of town, the al-Wafd party operates from a mansion with grand Corinthian columns in the lobby, a large lushly colored stained-glass window and enormous wooden doors. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Despite her exotic background—her father was a wealthy safari-park owner and her mother a former Miss Rhodesia—Zimbabwe-born Chelsy was as free-spirited and outdoorsy as she was lushly beautiful. ❋ Christopher Andersen (2011)

In a lushly beautiful corner of China, an experiment is under way to determine how lush and beautiful the country can remain — or become — as its economy continues to grow. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Athens has long been a place where lonely people go," Simon Van Booy writes in his lushly sentimental novel set in modern Greece, where I suspect that the statement no longer holds true. ❋ Sam Sacks (2011)