dewy
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The bulk of the book, especially the passages from M’s journals, are given to dewy philosophizing on the purpose of creation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Approaching the story with a mix of dewy nostalgia and incisive clarity, the film earned Reiner the first of three nominations from the Directors Guild of America.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025
I was sitting in Circle Clinic in the central Seoul district of Gangnam, surrounded by photos of impossibly dewy Korean faces with even better necks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
On a dewy night, Jemimah Rodrigues powered India to one of the greatest chases in women's cricket to reach the World Cup final.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2025
"My good Horse," said the Hermit, who had approached them unnoticed because his bare feet made so little noise on that sweet, dewy grass.
From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis
But until recently, the main game in town was the Jonathan Club, which was founded in 1895 and barely registered among the young, dewier set.
From New York Times ● Aug. 7, 2019
I know about his father’s stock-market losses and his own estrangement from dewier and more smoothly conformist classmates at Harvard’s business school.
From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2017
The lunar glow of Gheorghiu's voice sounds wan, and her intonation often sags; never having developed as an interpreter, she can only compete with our memories of her dewier prime.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 13, 2013
Basically, Plotz believes that the male characters on Nashville are far fresher and dewier and prettier than the female characters.
From Slate ● Jan. 18, 2013
I bid them dance, I bid them sing, For the limpid glance Of my ladyling; For the gift to the Spring of a dewier spring, For God's good grace of this ladyling!
From Sister Songs; an offering to two sisters by Francis Thompson
And steady, patient organizing, beginning at the dewiest grassroots: thus could a single small organization, from a distance and working with minimal resources, working in stealth, take over an organizational Goliath.
From Salon ● May 14, 2016
Heck, even the dewiest, pluckiest ingénue would have a hard time staying fresh once she became an endlessly re-marketable brand name.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2012
The newest, dewiest invention is a plump, pleasant-voiced 19-year-old named Jennie Smith.
From Time Magazine Archive
Every missile plant and laboratory has a welcome for the dewiest young technician.
From Time Magazine Archive
A heavy dew was falling, odours of Eden rose from the earth, colours glowed in the sky, and the dewiest and richest green was all round.
From The Hawaiian Archipelago by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
