Sam Abell

Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would become the most biographical of my photographs - an abstract image of the landscape and life of northern Ohio where I grew up and first practiced photography.

American Photographer

Tecumseh

You, too, will be driven away from your native land and ancient domains as leaves are driven before the wintry storms. Sleep not longer, O Choctaws and Chickasaws, in false security and delusive hopes. Our broad domains are fast escaping from our grasp.

Leader

Juergen Teller

I'm often in Venice in November and December, when it's foggy and wintry, and the decorations in the shops and the lights in the churches make the place feel both Christmassy and melancholic.

German Photographer

Honor Blackman

Apart from anything else, I find boots are too hot except in wintry weather. At home I usually wear a sweater, shirt and slacks.

British Actress

Lytton Strachey

There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages.

English Critic

Use 'wintry' to evoke the sensory aspects of winter like chill and coziness.

Atmospheric Imagery

'Wintry' is more than cold; it implies effects like snow or frost that characterize winter.

Beyond Temperature

Wintry can describe the harsh, inconvenient aspects of winter such as dangerous roads.

Negative Effects

'Wintry' can capture a feeling of chill or lifelessness in someone's behavior or feelings.

Emotional Tone

Describe scenes or looks as 'wintry' to suggest bleakness or lack of warmth or color.

Visual Description

Metaphorically, 'wintry' can represent the decline or emptiness in a situation or period.

Metaphorical Use

 remember as a child leaving England in the dark wintry morning snow and arriving in Africa to a ball of heat and the dead in the dead of night travelling across the Sahel over several days we came to my teachers village where there was no electricity no running water no

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 Warmer ground temperatures produce a wetter snow that is easier to pack because liquid water molecules help snowflakes stick to each other. Melted snow also plays a critical role in another wintry activity, skiing. Completely dry snow is very difficult to ski on

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 Also, their noses were large and had relatively high bridges. This created a nasal chamber that warmed and humidfied the cold, dry air they'd breathe in northern regions. Apart from adaptations that helped neanderthals survive a harsh, wintry habitat,

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