128 adjectives to describe settings

The antiphons and responses were given in the older translation of St. Jerome owing to their suitability for musical settings.

I have attempted to indicate briefly the historical setting of my investigation.

It seemed a fit setting for his fears.

This line of snow-crowned rocks terminates in perpendicular precipices on the very margin of the Leman, and forms, on the side of the lake, a part of that magnificent setting which renders the south-eastern horn of its crescent so wonderfully beautiful.

And the story has a fine romantic setting; that is, its incidents take hold of our fancy and charm us;a little girl stolen in war and carried to a foreign country and put into the house of a great general, who falls very ill and is cured in a wonderful way, and so on.

He also began a long course of art study, which resulted in his publishing his own books, adorned with marginal engravings colored by hand,an unusual setting, worthy of the strong artistic sense that shows itself in many of his early verses.

As this was still unoccupied, it made a most appropriate setting for the projected entertainment.

The architectural setting provided for the figures and the pictures of the Sistine vault is so obviously conventional, every point of vantage has been so skilfully appropriated to plastic uses, every square inch of the ideal building becomes so naturally, and without confusion, a pedestal for the human form, that we are lost in wonder at the synthetic imagination

Pope's first published poem, The Pastorals, which appeared in 1709, was followed in 1711 by An Essay on Criticism,an exquisite setting of a number of gems of criticism which had for a long time been current.

In every line of composition Vergil took infinite pains to give an accurate setting and atmosphere.

He took a simple-minded delight in her beauty, which was of the description that is at its best in a gorgeous setting.

"I think it is a very suitable setting for you, Lady Evesham!"

As a dramatic representation the drama had the advantage of being produced at the Lyceum Theatre, London, with all the historic art and sumptuous stage-setting with which Sir Henry Irving could well give it,Irving himself personating Philip, while Miss Bateman took the part of Queen Mary.

I am glad to be able to say, however, that since then I have had nothing but the utmost satisfaction in the working of the regenerative settings.

Athletic, muscular and systematically trained, his vigor, that was purely physical, passed readily for spiritual quality within that golden hall, where the resources of the world were all put under tribute to provide a royal setting.

This process obviously corresponds with the conjugation and subsequent setting free of germs in the Heteromita.

Tea was prepared in the familiar setting; a long arcaded room with painted ceiling and richly stuccoed walls.

A crowded House, the Peers' Gallery full to overflowing, the HEIR-APPARENT over the Clock, and the new Editor of The Times among the representatives of the Pressthe PRIME MINISTER could have desired no better setting for his speech upon the labours of the Peace Conference.

But in order to command the intellectual respect of the race, there must be another form of teaching yet than this, a teaching which presents Christ in the historic and philosophic setting: the central Figure in a great body of associated spiritual truth; Christ as the fulfilment of prophecy, the means of social adjustment and regeneration; the Finisher of our Faith, and the Source of eternal joy.

In that fantastic setting, and the hush of that twilight hour, the vision was so like the picture of a "Seraglio Tragedy," some fragment of a Delacroix or Decamps floating up into the drowsy brain, that I almost fancied I had seen the ghosts of Ba-Ahmed's executioners revisiting with dagger and bowstring the scene of an unavenged crime.

These supplementary observations may be known as control experiments, and the settings as supplementary settings.

The opinion of a fish, even a great lordly one, may not be worth much, but to me that exquisitely lovely stone, reposing on that exquisitely lovely shell, is a far more beautiful thing to look upon than the jewel ever could be when fitted into the costliest setting of gold.

His eyes are circled with red, but in the battered little setting of their orbits they have the lustre of old sapphires.

To give the whole exodus the right tragic setting, one is tempted to write that tears were streaming down all the faces of the refugees, but on the contrary, indeed, most of them carried a smile and a pipe, and trudged stolidly along, much as though bound for a fair.

Each platoon leader puts into execution the commands or directions of the captain, having first taken such precautions to insure correct sight setting and clear description of the target or aiming target as the situation permits or requires; thereafter he gives such additional commands or directions as are necessary to exact compliance with the captain's will.

128 adjectives to describe  settings