Sentences with word «luxuriance»

If Lot had the tropical luxuriance of Sodom, Abraham [sic] had the refreshing breeze of the hills, whose soft slopes were sprinkled with stretches of gray olives, and picturesquely mingled groves of pomegranates, figs, apricots, and almonds; while round him spread waving patches of wheat and barley, varied by green gardens and vineyards so famous, that the Jews believed the vine had been first planted by God's own hand on these fertile slopes.

It grows everywhere in the greatest luxuriance as a fine bush loaded with bunches of the pretty bright green and red berries.

In contrast to the in - your - face pop culture riff of Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet, Almereyda opts for a more cool, detached mode and a clean visual luxuriance, staging things in long, fluid takes, beautifully realized by DP John de Boorman.

The heady vegetative luxuriance commands respect, contrasting with the beaches draped in coconut palms.

You expect any attempt by cinema to venture into the pomp and luxuriance of Louis XIV and the Palace of Versailles to be rife with excess and frilly posturing, but A Little Chaos dispels such fears.

It grows wild everywhere in Western Africa in the greatest luxuriance.

Every open spot forming a plantation was smiling in the luxuriance of a summer harvest.

The elegance of the grasses, the novelty of the parasitical plants and the luxuriance of the vegetation filled me with admiration.

Fairytale flowers bloom amidst the luxuriance of foliage and spreading branches.

Filmed in three - strip Technicolor, a process long abandoned by Hollywood, which acquiesces a richness of reds and a luxuriance of yellows no longer achievable in American films, Zhang Yimou's historical heart breaker somehow sidesteps maudlin sentimentality while still maximizing its titular crimson blush.

Bathed in turbid waters, the luxuriance of stony and soft corals is surprisingly good.

As the longest barrier reef in the Northern and Western Hemispheres and distinctive on account of its size, array of reef types and the luxuriance of corals thriving in a pristine condition it provides a classic example of the evolutionary history of reefs and reef systems.

Fences and glare mark an actual industrial wasteland in photographs by Christina McPhee, with something of the same combination of luxuriance and terror.

I prefer Liliane Tomasko in the more modest surroundings of the Lower East Side, where bright primaries out of Joan Mitchell give a balance of luxuriance and control.

His 2007 collaboration here (with Chie Hammons, his wife) marked a shifting of gears away from overt and found signifiers of race and refuse, instead using signs of luxuriance — fur coats — and defacing them with paint and varnish, in addition to setting them on fire.