Sentences with phrase «diaphanous as»

As immediate and sharply observed as a fly - on - the - wall documentary, as enchanting and diaphanous as a dream, a deceptively lighthearted end to a monumental career.

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Under clear skies, it shows up as a diaphanous cone of light hanging in the west after sunset.

Diaphanous zebrafish embryo reveals its «artful etchings» The significance of the UCSF discoveries dramatizes the importance of the tiny blue - and - silver striped denizen of India's Ganges River - and many an aquarium — as a model for biomedical studies.

I can only imagine how diaphanous the movement of this dress was on her — as the runway presentation did display.

What a relief then when a couple of super-pretty, diaphanous slip dresses with floral embroidery appeared, as well as beautiful looks in a meadow green floral print.

I think denim is a good match for the Diaphanous Tunic as it's great for day to night.

I enthusiastically assembled outfits, as I am fond of doing, deciding to wear a diaphanous mauve, grey and black patterned blouse over black skinny jeans the very next day.

I never want to be parted from this.2) Diaphanous Tunic — Super cute and versatile, I bought it in all three colorways.3) Translucent Initial Necklace — I've worn this almost every day since I got mine, and bought more as Xmas gifts for all my best friends.4) Dusky Needlework Dress — No blog love for this, but I thought the fit was stunning, enough so that I got it at full price.5) The Ruffian collaboration tights — all of them!

Watching him as Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff last night, I kept wondering how it was that a man whose presence was so sharp and so lean, so unmistakably distinct from all surrounding static, could also seem to be disappearing in front of our eyes, practically diaphanous, a man already in the process of ascending to myth.

As you might predict, Little Sheldon shares his modern - day counterpart's particular lack of social grace: He innocently mocks his teachers for their lack of credentials, chastises those around him for violating the school's dress code («this girl's blouse is diaphanous which means I can see her brassiere»), and compares his tater - tot loving siblings to monkeys.

A 2008 untitled watercolor is exemplary of the artist's sexually - charged imagery: as a handsome young man wades nude through a dark pool of water, a mosaic and diaphanous space rises behind him.

In Greenberg's eyes the torch of Abstract Expressionism (the cornerstone of his power as a critic) was being carried forward by Ms. Frankenthaler's spirited reformulation, followed by Mr. Louis's languid pours; Mr. Noland's radiant targets; Mr. Olitski's carefully controlled stains and (later) diaphanous sprayed surfaces.

Yet as Bannard drove deeper into abstraction, crafting wispy swaths of diaphanous color washing over one another (and the viewer), he again found himself at loggerheads with the art world's tastemakers.

Jenkins's diaphanous streaks and gentle, fluid fields of color positioned him as an important figure in abstract expressionism, and he often exhibited in the same venues as Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning — artists who shared his instinctual working method.

The heavy materiality of Mountains of the Moon had enabled a diaphanous chromatic lightness, but around this time he began to explore much subtler interfusions of hue in paintings like Snow Morning (1959) and Golden Day (1960), which seem to anticipate color - field paintings such as Jules Olitski's works of the mid -»60s.11

Behind the diaphanous sari - fabric veils and trails of navel oranges at his Wooster Street space, dinner was an elaborate, Indian - themed affair for 175 of what used to be known as the Beautiful People.

Chicago saw this project as releasing the diaphanous colors of her sculptural Domes to soften and «feminize» the environment.

«Viscous,» «diaphanous,» «efflorescent,» «biomorphic,» and «vaporous» are applicable to the works of all three — these adjectives refer as readily to material states of paint and pigment as they do to certain states of metaphor and allusion.

Surrounding the entire room, a giant curtain with a diaphanous print featuring an expanding tumour is placed as a cosmic poetry that frames this uncomfortable romance between wealth and waste, western affluence and third world poverty.

In addition, a separate room within the gallery contains objects from the artist's Specimen Series — a collection of domestic appliances, such as a refrigerator and stove, that Suh replicated in diaphanous fabric and installed in light - filled Plexiglas boxes.

Often working at immense, room - filling scale, the British artist Karla Black undercuts the imposing size of her installations by making them as light and sweet as can be — all cotton - candy pastels, diaphanous drapery, and powders, strewn with cosmetics and other diminutive objects seemingly sourced from her medicine cabinet.

Working on a diaphanous white linen ground, as in Twill Series (Caribbean Blue / Black), 2014, the

An ethereal blue painting with waterfalls of diaphanous white and pale pink has as its central character a little bear tumbling through space.

Finely patterned sheers with a diaphanous quality are emerging as favourites for use in light - filled interiors, thanks to their extra-wide widths.