Certain paintings

Usage examples of landscapes.

Molds, fungi, bacteria, and other forms of various species have merged into a meta-life-form that adapts to differing landscapes and climates by expressing whatever combination of member life-forms is best suited to the local environment.

Her smooth Eurasian features betrayed fascination as she watched the red, broken landscapes swing by, one famous landmark after another.

Around him in his private quarters, Sondheim looked at the breathtaking scenery of the yawning desert landscapes, the immense vistas that seemed too large for the tiny planet below: the sunlight on rock, the shadows spilling into canyons, life finding its desperate footholds.

The currents of life, which brought storms and stirred the landscapes, died to a flicker, and sameness hung like a stupor everywhere from day to day and from place to place.

They lived in baffling urban complexes that resembled their labyrinthine cities back home, amid simulations of external vistas beneath artificial skies, and in isolated spots enjoying the peculiarities of various landscapes, copied and contrived.

But good dreams never lasted, and she woke repeatedly from nightmares, gazing out windows at strange landscapes, wishing that she could travel forever without stopping.

The large front room in which we sat had those big windows that houses with a view should have, and the walls were filled with paintings and prints - landscapes, antique political cartoons, a 1654 map of Sutherland, a famous old print of Dornoch, a painting of the Dornoch Bookshop, done by Cyril Reed in 1999, which was given to Richard when he sold the shop.

Crenshaw loves big, sweeping landscapes, options for shots, huge, undulating greens.

In the panelled spaces on the walls were some stone-coloured landscapes, representing the mountains and canyons of the West, which the Colonel and his wife had visited on one of the early official railroad excursions.

These phantasms added their chill to that imparted by the tone of the walls, the landscapes, and the carpets, and contributed to the violence of the contrast when the chandelier was lighted up full glare, and the heat of the whole furnace welled up from the registers into the quivering atmosphere on one of the rare occasions when the Laphams invited company.

The mortuary decor leaned to wainscoting, topped with wallpaper murals showing soft mountain landscapes, forests of ever-greens with paths meandering through the woods.

Ancient Echoes is pure fantasy, Holdstock gives his scenario of time-traveling cities and survivals of antiquity a clearly sci-ence-fictional spin: Jack ventures into the otherworld through a peculiar experimental device, a kind of brain scanner and virtual reality projector put together to allow a subject to delve quite realistically into the deep unconscious landscapes of his or her own mind.

They had unlocked the metadynamics of economies and population growth, and the fitness landscapes of nation-states.