Next day he fell into a barrel of red paint he was swobbin' on the hotel to keep her from warpin', an' every blessed man in camp passed out about six jokes apiece relatin' to local color.
Local color, how far expressible in black and white, and with what advantage.
Pure cobalt, violent rose, and purple, are of frequent occurrence in his distances; pure siennas and other browns in his foregrounds, and that not as expressive of lighted but of local color.
How should you define "local color" in terms of the work of each of these writers?
Notwithstanding the use of dialect and other realistic touches of local color, the fiction is largely romantic.
As he knew nothing of English life at first hand, he naturally could not make the pages of Precaution vivid with touches of local color.
But how careless romancers of that date were as to details which are nowadays so closely, so elaborately studied under the name of 'local color.
Tosca" and "La Bohème" speak out of many measures of his latest opera, but there is introduced in it a mixture of local color.
Say, yuh got quite a bunch uh local color for a story, didn't yuh?
Here's where yuh get the real thing in local color," he taunted, but Thurston was too busy to answer.
So far as he had gone, he was in touch with it; he was steeped to the eyes in local color--and there was the rub The lure of it was strong upon him, and he might not loosen its hold.
At the same time the poverty of ethical insight and true dramatic motivation is dissimulated under profuse lyrical outpourings and purple patches of local color.
The cult of the picturesque is closely associated with the cult of local color.
Following Harte and Hay came the outburst of local color fiction.
What Hay was to the new school of local color poets, Eggleston was to the new school of novelists.
The great revival of interest in Dickens brought about by his death precipitated the first wave of local color novels--the earliest work of Harte and Eggleston and Stockton and the author of Cape Cod Folks.
But I knew I could not do it; I knew I had no background--no local color.
When the negro, the 'cracker' or the mountaineer dialect occurs naturally in an American story, it often gives telling effects of local color and of shading.
The stories of Miss Wilkins, Octave Thanet, Bret Harte, and Joel Chandler Harris are full of excellent examples of local color.
One of the chief causes of padding is the desire for "local color"--a term by which we characterize those details which are introduced to make a story seem to smack of the soil.
As you will see, it is a place for a lot of "local color.
I was glad to show him some more "local color," and that beautiful old house is simply oozing with it.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "local color" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
