They offered a sleek look dappled with theatrically eccentric touches in contrast to sterile chain and over-gilded luxury offerings.

WSJ: Boutique Hotels: 'Home' Away From Home

The most popular route along the valley today is an ascent of the Mont des Loups, bounding up wooden steps and over little rivulets through a forest dappled with sunlight.

BBC: Qu��bec's wood runners

The woodcutters and gold prospectors may be long gone, but travellers can still relive this fascinating historic era through a series of forest walking trails that evoke the vanished world of the woodcutters, winding beneath the canopy along rust-coloured streams dappled with sun and shadow.

BBC: Step back in time in South Africa��s Garden Route

That's a skip through a sun-dappled meadow compared with my brief, ignominious Bee foray.

CNN: The agony and ecstasy of the National Spelling Bee

It includes the Salle des Taureaux, or Hall of the Bulls, famous for its frescoes of crimson aurochs and dappled horses, as well as a gallery lined with reindeer.

BBC: The perfect trip: Dordogne

With delicate observation and quietly intense pathos, Dreyer captures the actors in a dappled light and a depth of shadow that seem to illuminate his characters from within.

NEWYORKER: The Parson's Widow

As the movie opens, Jane Adler (Streep) attends a sun-dappled outdoor party where she runs into her ex-husband, Jake (Alec Baldwin), with his much younger second wife, Agness (Lake Bell).

CNN: Review: 'Complicated' lavishes attention on stuff