Sentences with phrase «craggy landscape»

With skittle - coloured buildings, peaceful canals and windmills doting the craggy landscape, you will be unsurprised to hear the Danes have won the title from the UN's Sustainable Development Solutions Network for the third time in four years.

It's a special place — a craggy landscape of dramatic limestone formations, and also a good spot to escape the beautiful but crowded towns of Málaga province for some peace.

Poole calls it a study in contrasts: «That really, really pitch black dark craggy landscape with this stunningly blue Idaho sky, and then the sparks of green that are made up of the limber pine trees that grow there,» she says.

«Les Becquets's novel is thick with craggy landscapes that shadow the valleys of the human heart.

Dedicate half a day to exploring the craggy landscapes of Cape Range National Park.

He has made his name in the past few years creating, with ostensible effortlessness, messy yet sophisticated paintings that feature bug - eyed figures in craggy landscapes.

Not exact matches

Augusta National does not so much point the way forward as suggest what might have been: an archipelago of Church institutions thriving as craggy masses of authentic catholicity in an otherwise undifferentiated landscape.

If you drive south, and then a bit east from Monterey, the landscape changes from the big horizons, slates and blues of the coast to rolling, golden hills, warmer temperatures, craggy trees, and horse properties.

A lot of Lucky is philosophical mischief, some of it is tediously ruminative, and some moments achieve a loveliness that belies the film's craggy desert terrain, the earthiness of its characters and even the landscape of Mr. Stanton's body.

Hauntingly photographed in the craggy hills of Scotland, the film is more like a sustained, barbaric grunt, leading terrible men through a condemned landscape of their own making.

Rather, she gallops through the craggy Scottish landscape on her frothing steed, Angus.

Those shots are in contrast to those landscapes, which are craggy, primordial.

Red rocks crunch beneath the Trailcat's 39.5 - inch tires, as its modified Wrangler body barrels its way across the craggy red landscape.

Surrounded by the craggy peaks of the Remarkables and fringed by Lake Wakatipu's sapphire waters, Queenstown provides access to the region's splendid landscapes, carved over thousands of years by slow - moving glaciers.

Beginning in Duruelo de la Sierra, a small town in the province of Soria, the Douro makes its way down through the craggy rocks of the Spanish landscape and across to the Spanish - Portuguese border.

The craggy coastline and windswept bluffs looked a whole lot more like photographs of wild Scottish landscapes as opposed to golden Portuguese beaches.

With an experienced driver at the wheel of your 6 - seater jeep, trundle across the island's moon - like landscapes and trace dramatic roads along the craggy west coast.

What is most striking about the landscape around Salalah is its variety, from the long beaches that stretch hundreds of kilometres along the clear Indian Ocean, to craggy mountain ranges, green rolling hills, rocky deserts, and beyond those, the formidable sand dunes of the Arabian Empty Quarter.

The route from Luang Prabang in the north to the capital Vientiane takes you through a dramatic landscape of gently meandering rivers, tall limestone karst formations, craggy caves and waterfalls.

This is in startling contrast to the northern Flinders Ranges, a rugged landscape of craggy peaks and deep cool gorges and home to bountiful pockets of wildlife.

A rugged landscape of craggy peaks and deep cool gorges and home to pockets of bountiful wildlife.

There are several unusual things to do in Edinburgh that elude many of us travelers.Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland and hearing the name conjures images of Castles, magical forests with towering trees, craggy mountains and romantic vistas of long grassy plains teeming with the beautiful Scottish landscape.

Town of Singen — volcanic landscape at Hegau Near the industrial town of Singen is an area known as the Hegau, an extinct volcanic landscape with strange craggy peaks.

From craggy mountains to snowy valleys and rainy grasslands, the differing landscapes kept things interesting to say the least.

The vast sulphurous landscape, with craggy mountains spewing gas into the greenish air, is jammed with rocket pack zombies and ends with a mega demon bearing down at the player.

His paintings are strangely powerful, mysterious amalgams of landscape and unique craggy forms that might be bursts of lightning or flakes of old paint, blistered by the prairie heat.

In 1818, the German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich painted Wander Above a Sea of Fog, in which a young man stands atop a rocky escarpment, surveying an untamed landscape of forest and craggy mountains.

He is most widely known for his landscapes, with their craggy ravines, crumbling towers, and suggestive light effects.

His suggestively craggy ceramic vessels, completed with live flowers, evoke sensual primeval landscape, while their heavily worked metallic surfaces simultaneously evoke the Futurist sculptures of Umberto Boccioni.

Ominous clouds and landmasses, monks, ears, mysterious female figures, faceless busts and other enigmatic characters float over craggy and rolling landscapes.

«In Japan, art and poetry reflect the gentle changes in climate resulting from the islands» topography as an archipelago, whereas in China, art reflects the cycle of seasons through stunning landscape paintings of craggy cliffs, wide rivers and soaring mountains.»

Think German officers and you say «Marsden Hartley»; reference the craggy Maine landscape and you call up Rockwell Kent, Frederic Church, John Marin, George Bellows and Winslow Homer.

We've seen lesser TVs lose virtually all surrounding details to black clipping there, smearing the craggy peaks, but with the P - Series we could see the entire landscape of rock and sand surrounding Watney's deep - space prison.