The crowded resorts do not give one a tithe of the character or local colour to be had from a stay in some little market-town inn of France or Germany.
It was a good enough hotel of its kind, but there was nothing of local colour about it.
One advantage of local colour is the opportunity it gives the writer of a double hold on the reader's interest--he may captivate by the setting of his theme no less than by the theme itself.
Mere verbatim description of scenery is not the best way to work in local colour; it is liable to become guide-booky.
Sidenote: American Writers excel in the Handling of Local Colour] Some British writers appreciate to the full the artistic value of local colour (Rudyard Kipling and Mrs. F.
Now we contend that old uncritical poets no more sought for antique "local colour" than any other artists did.
In arming them with bronze he makes use, in his way, of what we call "local colour.
The very words "local colour" are a modern phrase for an idea that never occurred to the artists of ancient uncritical ages.
The appearance of the country, the dress and language of the people, all that distinguishes the particular locality from others near and remote--is local colour.
Lady Innisfail had told him confidentially that day that she wished to impress her English visitors with the local colour of the region round about.
Black as a local colour, whether by way of heraldic tincture or to represent velvet in costume, was very generally used; but in such small quantities always as entirely to justify its use.
He makes occasional use of solid black by way of local colour, as may be seen in the hood of the abbess and the shoes of the men to the right.
It was only in thus rendering the human hair that the earliest craftsman ever used paint as local colour.
With regard to local colour; this may be indicated by shading, by a white space, or by a black space.
On the other hand, the various tissues may be represented by lines of varying breadths, the thickest walled cells having the same double contour as in the above, but with the addition of local colour in the shape of diagonal shading.
The music, though not without a touch of coarseness, overflows with life and energy, and one scene in particular, that of a Flemish Kermesse, is masterly in its judicious and convincing use of local colour.
The Egyptian subject, so remote from the ordinary operatic groove, seems to have tempted him to a fresher and more vivid realism, and the possibilities of local colouropened a new world to so consummate a master of orchestration.
Thomas employs several charming old Scandinavian tunes in the course of the work, which give a clever tinge of local colour to the score.
Special attention must be directed to Verdi's use of local colourin 'Aida.
We said to the Classicists, 'Without local colour, there is no hope of salvation,' meaning by local colour that which in the seventeenth century was known as manners and customs.
There is a flavour of local colour which I find delightful.
The moonlit garden in which the incomparable lines of the poet were spoken was of the true Italian type, though there is nothing in the text of what is called "local colour.
Bizet achieved his "local colour" in Carmen in rather a more subtle way.
That is what it is termed "local colour"; and it was hoped that every one who saw them so employed was convinced that the scene was laid in Seville.
Black, therefore, should be reserved for a local colour, or employed only in the under-painting properly called grounding and dead colouring.
Being less active than the other primaries in reflecting light, it is sooner lost as a local colour by assimilation with distance.
As a local colour, black has the effect of connecting or amassing surrounding objects, and is the most retiring of all colours, a property which it communicates to other colours in mixture.
To this the provincial differences opposed a salutary variety of manners, speech, local colour, almost everything.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "local colour" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
