Sentences with phrase «mere wisps»

The entire structure faced outward in the direction of the East River, and on the sunwashed day that I visited, its surfaces reflected the blue of the sky with mere wisps of clouds in a movingly poetic visualization of the accompanying instructions.

In his scrap - book there are yellowed clippings from days when Mike Peterson was a mere wisp of a child who still could lead the local midgets to a state baseball title by pitching the same game he won with a two - run homer.

The conditions are reminiscent of soil in Antarctica's Dry Valleys, Kounaves said, referring to the hyperarid, ice - free regions where the merest wisp of life hangs on.