Its lushness is a striking contrast to the younger succulent garden, with its spiky shapes and otherworldly blooms.

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The cream adds a lushness and the raspberries temper the maple syrup's sweetness (later in the year, fresh raspberries can be substituted).

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Koltai steers away from dramatic climaxes and paroxysms of violence, but he cannot help tipping the balance with the very lushness of his filmmaking.

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The movie seems clean and steady, a corrective to the lushness and extravagance that, for better or worse, has come to be seen as the house style of Chinese cinema.

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This was the landscape that we hardly managed to glimpse before the sphere swiftly receded into the sky, and the more minute details were lost in a general impression of freshness and lushness.

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