The phrase
"gossamer threads" refers to thin and delicate strands, similar to spiderwebs. It is often used metaphorically to describe something fragile, light, or barely visible.
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A writer of pyrotechnic virtuosity and profound compassion, a mind to which nothing human is alien, David Mitchell spins genres, cultures, and ideas
like gossamer threads around and through these nine linked stories.
David Mitchell spins genres, cultures, and ideas like
gossamer threads around and through these nine linked stories.
It slips from between my calloused, gnarly fingers like
a gossamer thread gently descending to earth between two giant redwood trunks.
It's the most beautiful, exhausting, and inspiring part of the job: meeting the flesh - and - blood people who have connected to the flesh - and - blood me through
the gossamer thread of words.
Channing Tatum's much publicised tap number is lovely although linked to the main storyline by
a gossamer thread and everything & everyone looks wonderful with all the glorious costumes you'd expect from a period film located on the sound stages, back - lots and streets of Los Angeles.
As two very different worlds are woven together, Newbery Medal winner Sharon Creech celebrates
the gossamer thread that connects us all, and the great and unexpected gifts of love, friendship, and forgiveness.
All sounded good, punchy where necessary and yet still subtle enough to bring out
the gossamer threads of excellence
From bacteria that can make gasoline to
gossamer thread that can hold up bridges.