At every shop window she checked out her reflection and her several diaphanous layers of bold, floral-printed skirt, top and shawl. |
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Light filters through the diaphanous structure, supplementing cool north light for those exhibits that can be exposed to daylight. |
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In lingerie, this is expressed by delicate shapes in diaphanous fabrics which flutter around the body. |
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I found a parrotfish hiding in a cave, debris from its diaphanous veil of mucus wafting back and forth with each slight swell. |
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Illuminated only by the fire, her figure shrouded in diaphanous clothes, she drifted in a nimbus of copper light. |
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This hot black halter top enhances your bustline with silk chiffon layered over silk charmeuse for a diaphanous effect with velvet trim. |
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Seared tuna was cut wafer-thin and plated in an odd checkerboard pattern with diaphanous slivers of half-ripe mango. |
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The goddess, clad in a diaphanous robe, overawes the medieval demoiselles who have gathered to admire their reflections in a mountain pool. |
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The young man beckons us into his tiny shop and spreads out some diaphanous silks for our inspection. |
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The clear glass skin of the banking and ATM hall is held in place by slim vertical mullions, emphasizing its sleek, diaphanous quality. |
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I enjoyed several diaphanous slivers of beef sashimi, even though the entire dish took me roughly three seconds to consume. |
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Like the most diaphanous works by Turner or Rothko, it suggests representational elements, yet one is hard-pressed to discern any in the image. |
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A chorus of fairies wafts above the stage, fluttering their diaphanous wings. |
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Conversation ebbs and flows, and from time to time, our host's wife floats through in her diaphanous dress and offers us cheese straws. |
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The canvas is almost 5 feet tall, and it shows her in a light turquoise satin and chiffon dress with short diaphanous sleeves. |
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Like Robert Irwin, he uses diaphanous fields to capture light, and hovering surfaces to question the fixity of architectural space. |
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Dresses acquired their frilliness, which generally centered on the bodice and skirt hem, with layers of ruffles usually in diaphanous materials. |
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As the audience enters, the diaphanous curtains onstage are gently blowing in the breezes of the Amalfi coast. |
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The interior is largely obscured, however, by an upside-down stair, magically suspended from the first floor and contained by a diaphanous veil of fine steel grating. |
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As part of the acclaimed hip-hop group Jigmastas, DJ Spinna rose to prominence with a catalog of tracks that exuded a diaphanous cool and open-air jazziness. |
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A diaphanous and romantic complexion, pastel eyes in violet, cheeks highlighted in pink and glossy pink lips. |
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The combination of the grass roof and the diaphanous glass panelling allows the building to harmonise perfectly with its premises. |
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The lounge, being diaphanous and glazed makes it to be an open and warm space, perfect to celebrate any type of event. |
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The cloud is «moulded» by way of the condensation which offers him a diaphanous matter. |
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The most spectacular is stereoscopy, which gives great volume to the diaphanous spirals of the nebula. |
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Interior: the train is continuous, the coaches being linked by a diaphanous inter-circulation corridor. |
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And the pastel itself, sometimes dense, sometimes light, wonderfully interprets the diaphanous tutus and grey, dusty atmosphere of this room. |
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The thinly painted, diaphanous rectangles, which achieve greater density of color where they overlap, function as simulacra of brushmarks or as tesserae in a mosaic. |
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I attended his lectures on perception in the 1960s, and am touched to discover that he, too, was taken in as a child by the illusion that cinema curtains are diaphanous. |
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Even more amazingly, especially in the ravishing performance of Debussy's orchestral seascapes, they bring a chamber music-like transparency to this diaphanous score. |
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The gauzy fabric was extremely soft and light, yet somehow not diaphanous. |
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Her taste for wearing loose, diaphanous, white muslin dresses, adopted from Marie Antoinette, gave rise to what became known as the Perdita chemise. |
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The first glimpse of what a London Olympics would look like reveals an 80,000-seater stadium with diaphanous roof sections resembling giant insect wings. |
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From mesh and lace to the sheer and diaphanous, transparency was a clear favorite on the runways. |
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The interior is largely obscured by an upside-down stair, magically suspended from the first floor and contained by a diaphanous veil of fine steel grating. |
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The background is an intricately marbleized cascade of diaphanous, sea-foam-green skeins over cerulean blue, a surface more precious and less labored than usual. |
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There are clear formal and material similarities, especially in the use of translucent glass cladding that sheathes the building in a diaphanous membrane. |
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Then, in March, ICARUS, another experiment that studies the diaphanous particles, which are nearly as ubiquitous in the universe as photons, yet rarely interact with anything, found them to obey Einstein's strictures. |
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Asymmetric diaphanous layered skirts floated on the catwalk at Missoni. |
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Whether skin-like, playing on the diaphanous and the vanishingly thin, or saturated, excessive, gestural and almost baroque, it conveys with force the tactility of its materials and the energy if its tensions. |
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A tale of impossible love, this absolute masterpiece of inventiveness and sensitivity embodies the pinnacle of elegance in ballet, with its evanescent ballerinas floating across the stage in diaphanous costumes. |
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But setting her calendar age to one side, Watson's neoteny affects more than her physical appearance, for she is enfolded in the diaphanous — yet profoundly real — swaths of her former status as a child star. |
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Whether based on diaphanous, evanescent, almost immaterial 'skins', or saturated, excessive, gestural and 'baroque', each piece is rooted in the tactile quality of its materials, and the energy of its inherent tensions. |
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Curved, diaphanous glass roofs are supported at 8m intervals by gently arching steel beams, like great ribcages. |
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Without ever sinking into a simulacrum of romanticism, Prokofiev nevertheless gives free rein to his pen here, favoring diaphanous textures and the nocturnal tremors of solo strings. |
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The visual element of the blond, diaphanous, slender figure of the harpist, suggestively recalling Debussy's Melisande, was providing aerial lightness to the filigree and to the arabesque fluids of the instrument. |
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She wears a diaphanous himation that covers her torso, over a floor-length chiton of heavier fabric. |
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The dining room is full of the light that comes through the large and diaphanous stained glass windows on which are represented allegories with fruits and flowers sorrounded by inscriptions. |
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A programmed seam length control is recommended for diaphanous material. |
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The atmosphere is accentuated by the effect of a diaphanous light. |
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The treatment of colour, intentionally desaturated, produces a monochromic and diaphanous impression of the flesh that the eyes and the mouth colourfully counterpoint, like artefacts. |
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But had these mountains been diaphanous, we could never have seen those luminous montuosities. |
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A fresh breeze, with a touch of impertinence and innocence is blowing on light, diaphanous fabrics, giving the dress the chance to play with transparency. |
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What was precise was now enormous, unsubstant, diaphanous, for he had seen her. |
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As the models floated down the catwalk, princesslike in their diaphanous, glittering white gowns and tiaras, the gasps were audible. |
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Transparent for diaphanous sky blues, reds or greens, as you wish. |
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The most diaphanous wings carry a burden of pollen from flower to flower. |
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More complex were two landscapes in which figurative elements on both sides of the diaphanous scrim work in tandem to create recognizably Jamesian topographies. |
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Although brimming with tropes characteristic of the baroque style and loosely structured after Gongora's Soledades, Tropico is a diaphanous collection of decimas. |
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