The chocolate-box image of Mozart as a little miracle can be promptly banged on the head. |
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It's just another central European chocolate-box town, all cobbled streets and spinning-top church steeples. |
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I branch off into the residential area, passing dozens of quaintly named, chocolate-box cottages. |
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She lives in the Cotswolds, but doesn't have a chocolate-box sensibility in anything, really. |
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Later in life all three would become cliches – chocolate-box desidarata for casual conversation. |
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Well, sometimes those chocolate-box descriptions are just plain wrong. |
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Surprisingly this all turned out to be quite fun, but I was still happy to return to the chocolate-box beauty of Aix after my reluctant taste of reality. |
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The danger is people listening to the moaning of disillusioned hacks and venerating a chocolate-box version of the past instead of seeking out new music. |
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The rolling green hills of the Cotswolds, dotted with manor houses, chocolate-box villages and bustling market towns, have always been popular with upmarket buyers. |
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The baroque churches are glorious, chocolate-box designs, as playful and loveable as the clockwork stars of Toccata for Toy Trains. |
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Watercolour painting is traditionally the preserve of chocolate-box landscapes and pictures of gambolling kittens. |
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Stringent planning regulations mean that all buildings are constructed in chalet style in keeping with the resort's chocolate-box image. |
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By the blue lake and in the dark shadow of the Eiger, the small chocolate-box Swiss town of Thun has been a well kept secret for many years. |
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You have to punch your way through the chocolate-box image. |
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Kruger might be chocolate-box pretty but her style adds edge. |
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The action takes place in the Balkans around 1885 and so the show has sumptuous period costumes and a chocolate-box set designed by Mark Bailey. |
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It's definitely not a tragic ending, but it's not chocolate-box happy either. |
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A ADRIENNE SAYS For a romantic chocolate-box look, plant borders in drifts of colour rather than blocks. |
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The Grade I Elizabethan manor house is hidden in a 3,500 acre wooded estate, close to the chocolate-box village of Gittisham. |
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The impressionists showed us something about the world, Cezanne something different, a chocolate-box painting nothing. |
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He painted a chocolate-box picture for the Salon, entered it, was admitted. |
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