No very highly imaginative mind is surely necessary to conjure up a scene of wonderful picturesqueness from the foregoing. ❋ Unknown (1920)
"Tony," she said, "the quality which I admire most in a donkey-driver, besides truthfulness and picturesqueness, is imagination." ❋ Unknown (1907)
The public buildings and temples, though they bear magnificent names, are extremely ugly, and are the subjects of slow but manifest decay, while the streets of shops exceed in picturesqueness everything I have ever seen. ❋ Isabella Lucy (1883)
It was like an old-time Indian council, but the picturesqueness was a good deal spoiled by the gingham shirts they wore, and the ill-fitting coats and trousers from the store. ❋ Hulbert Footner (1911)
Our knights are not weighted down with heavy armor, but much more appropriately attired, for a day like this, in costumes that recall the picturesqueness, without the discomfort, of the old knightly harness. ❋ Unknown (1900)
The Thirty-Years War abounds with what may be called picturesqueness in its events, and still more in the condition of the people who carried it on. ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)
There is absolutely no question but that the countryside of England is unequalled for that unique variety of picturesqueness which is characteristic of the land, but it lacks the grandeur that one finds in France, or indeed in most countries of ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Neither is it without a degree and kind of picturesqueness, both in its nearness and in the distance, when a blue gleam from its surface, among the green meadows and woods, seems like an open eye in Earth's countenance. ❋ Various (N/A)
THE chronicles of history record that in most wars some figure, through intrepidity, originality, and brilliancy of action, has raised himself above his fellows and achieved a picturesqueness which is commonly associated only with characters of fiction. ❋ Unknown (1917)
The spectacle ought certainly to have the interest of picturesqueness which is inherent in the fortuitous. ❋ Unknown (1914)
Rhetoric is the study of language with a view to obtaining some special effect in the communication of ideas or feelings, such as picturesqueness in description, vivacity in narration, lucidity in exposition, vehemence in persuasion, or literary charm. ❋ Carveth Read (1889)
The nooks and corners where great men of the past spent their lives quietly and thoughtfully often lie far enough from the beaten ways to provide the romantic tramp with a motive that he may need to excuse his singularity in faring on foot over a tract of country which lacks the kind of picturesqueness that would mark it out as a territory to be annexed by the tourist sooner or later. ❋ Edward Harrison Barker (1885)
In London we have merely the ill-clad newsvendor, whose voice, in spite of the admirable efforts of the Royal College of Music to make England a really musical nation, is always out of tune, and whose rags, badly designed and badly worn, merely emphasise a painful note of uncomely misery, without conveying that impression of picturesqueness which is the only thing that makes the poverty of others at all bearable. ❋ Oscar Wilde (1877)
Something nearer "picturesqueness" and "the beautiful" came to please the sense and to soothe the spirit at Oak Knoll. ❋ Annie Fields (1874)
Pompey, or even of Caesar -- a picturesqueness which is produced in great part by these very doubtings which have been counted against him as insincerity. ❋ Anthony Trollope (1848)
In fact the beauty of the film is too constant, to the point that it's picturesqueness at times becomes tedious, even exhausting. ❋ G. Roger Denson (2011)
"the picturesque [covered] [bridges] of [New England]" ❋ Picturesque (2015)
I just [downloaded] [Picturesque] on to my Mac and wow my [Myspace pics] are looking sexy! ❋ Javathecup (2008)
Some guy: Whoa dude did you see? The Picturesque Rats [groupchat] is the best one on [this side] of the galaxy!
Some dude: [Yeah guy], didn’t you know how cool the people in that groupchat are?!? ❋ TastyAssBitc113 (2021)
