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3465 25th Street, Suite 17
San Francisco, CA 94110 | (adjective)
[BOS-kee] 
1. covered with bushes, thickets, or small trees; bushy: "Our games in that bosky park always ended with the ball disappearing in the ravenous vegetation."
2. of or relating to a woods
noun form: boskiness
Origin:
Approximately 1590; from Middle English, 'bosk': bush; from Medieval Latin, 'bosca'; of Germanic origin. In action:
"Typical, too, of the best English horror films -- which always drew on great actors, even for the supporting parts -- the cast is absolutely free of condescension.
The wonderful, hawk-faced Fiona Shaw, of 'My Left Foot,' plays an aged professor, and Paddy Considine, of 'In America,' is a black-magic expert. The venerable Redgrave dynasty is represented by Corin, who plays Henderson's boss, and Miranda Otto -- last seen traipsing around the bosky glens of Middle Earth -- is Visnjic's worried wife.
Director Nick Willing comes out of fantasy films -- he did TV's new 'Jason and the Argonauts' and 'Alice in Wonderland' -- and he has some fun with imagery here, mixing film stocks and dabbling in surreal CGI. When the occasion warrants, though, he's not above suggesting some very foul tortures involving a rat or old surgical instruments."
Stephen Whitty. "Quirky British horror flick is sharply acted eye-opener," The New Jersey Star-Ledger (April 16, 2004).
"Stars studded the sky and fog filled all the valleys like fjords at seven the next morning when I caught the bus that transported me effortlessly down the mountain to Triacastela, where I lay gratefully in the sun till Patrick appeared. Happily, the following day I was fit to walk again.
This district resembled Tolkien's Shire. Bosky paths threaded from one hamlet to the next past burbling rivulets and bee-loud glades. In the middle of it all a valley opened up to reveal the massive monastery of Samos."
Denise Fainberg. "A Pilgrim, but a Tourist, Too," The New York Times (June 29, 2003).
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