an expanse of scenery that can be seen in a single view
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painting depicting an expanse of natural scenery
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a genre of art dealing with the depiction of natural scenery
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an extensive mental viewpoint
<noun.cognition> the political landscape looks bleak without a change of administration we changed the landscape for solving the problem of payroll inequity [ verb ]
embellish with plants
<verb.creation> Let's landscape the yard
do landscape gardening
<verb.creation> My sons landscapes for corporations and earns a good living
Landscape \Land"scape\, n. [Formerly written also {landskip}.] [D. landschap; land land + -schap, equiv. to E. -schip; akin to G. landschaft, Sw. landskap, Dan. landskab. See {Land}, {and} {-schip}.] 1. A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains.
2. A picture representing a scene by land or sea, actual or fancied, the chief subject being the general aspect of nature, as fields, hills, forests, water. etc. Compare {seascape}.
3. The pictorial aspect of a country.
The landscape of his native country had taken hold on his heart. --Macaulay.
{Landscape gardening}, The art of laying out grounds and arranging trees, shrubbery, etc., in such a manner as to produce a picturesque effect.
The graves of the victims (of cholera, mostly) dot the landscape. The pass is now guarded by the Khyber Rifles, whose HQ is close to the top of the pass.
But he has not taken his eye off the road through the tricky landscape of recession.
Mrs. Thatcher "has redrawn the political landscape," says Gillian Peele, an Oxford University politics fellow.
Covering 4 percent of the country, wilderness areas comprise a sampler of the American landscape: Great Gulf and Lost Creek, Mud Swamp and Thunder Ridge.
Veronese extends that landscape indoors, confecting romantic vistas beyond trompe l'oeil marble balustrades and rustic scenes reflecting the four seasons. Allegorical figures celebrate the pleasures of music.
Great English gardeners and landscape designers like Capability Brown and Humphry Repton understood that nature is the source and inspiration.
He indicated a youthful landscape on the sitting room wall and told me he had a studio full of pictures.
As with monetary policy, the stock market's concern over the dollar is based more on the shifting landscape than its actual value.
Along one boulevard, "the average life of a shrub is about an hour and a half," said Alex Vare, landscape architect.
They have now left the challengers standing. Admittedly, the setting is special, the central meadow of the walk where Joseph Addison reflected on landscape gardening in the early 18th century and began to rebel against the formal style.
You don't have a problem like San Francisco has with Alcatraz _ a big massive sore on the landscape." Jim Wordsworth, secretary and treasurer of Surfside 6, said the prefab building could be used as a shelter for the homeless or to store records.
It's a working landscape," replied August Schumacher Jr., Massachusetts commissioner of food and agriculture.
This, then, was the intellectual landscape as Ronald Reagan was inaugurated and proposed the tax cuts that became the heart of Reaganomics.
Mr. Burton's districts swooped and dipped through the social and physical landscape.
The sagebrush and winterfat growing on the sandy plateau soil provide food and cover for Townsend ground squirrels and jackrabbits, among the most important prey in this prey-rich landscape.
Between them, half a dozen mighty highways have sliced the landscape into noise-ravaged segments.
But their story shares a common thread with all families who struggled to find each other across a disrupted urban landscape.
"What we know by instinct is finally coming out in print, and the landscape is bleak," said Donald Lamm, chairman of W.W. Norton, which publishes about 300 titles a year and is known for serious nonfiction.
One man, who identified himself as a Dole supporter but declined to give his name, summed up the political landscape for a reporter: "I guess it's all over for him unless he wins Illinois.
Also, landscape architect Ian McHarg and painter Jacob Lawrence, as well as art patrons David Lloyd Kreeger of Washington and Harris and Carroll Masterson of Houston.
Under the titles, a helicopter shot focuses on the New York skyline, then across an endless landscape of gravestones.
The etching, "Six's Bridge," is part of the first major exhibit devoted to Rembrandt's landscape prints and drawings.
The program "will change the economic and social landscape of Turkey and will help us attain the levels of the advanced Western countries."
But Fiat's new plant at Melfi, in the lunar landscape of Basilicata in southern Italy, is startlingly modern.
When it comes to personal creativity I am sure that the majority of the English respond to landscape design and the art of gardening much more than they do to fine art or architecture.
Negotiations are proceeding briskly in both arenas in Vienna and Geneva, and the easing of tensions across the European landscape serves as a catalyst for even speedier resolution of the pacts.
The Treasury auctions were a bright spot on the otherwise bleak landscape for the bond market.
As we ambled through the stark landscape, the only sounds came from the creak of the leather saddle and the camel farting and panting.
In this idyllic English landscape, the only unpleasant intruder is what is known locally as the Blandford Beastie.
A Catskill Mountains landscape sold for $8.25 million, tops for an old American painting.