filmy
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Curiously, the style game of Punjabi musicians - from hip-hop, R&B, bhangra pop, fusion, Punjabi rap, reggae or filmy music - has also remained rooted and androgynous, instead of being hyper masculine.
From BBC ● May 31, 2025
For decades, researchers have assumed that the inevitable filmy buildup on electrodes inside rechargeable batteries is the driver of performance loss.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2023
Whether it was a filmy deconstructed trench coat, a ribbed turtleneck with detachable sleeves, or those impeccably tailored trousers, every piece was crafted.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 2023
He also visited a creek near the derailment site, releasing a video in which he used a stick to stir a filmy substance in the water that he described as evidence of possible contamination.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2023
When Dicey awoke the next morning, she saw filmy shadows, as if the inside of the trailer was swathed in veils.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
The lower sleeves are golden, a line of white at the wrist, and a filmier one within the bodice.
From Holbein by Fortescue, Beatrice
Our normal waking consciousness is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.
From Time Magazine Archive
Science can now educe threads of such exquisite tenuity that only the feet of the tiniest infant-spiders can ascend them; but up the filmiest insubstantiality Shelley runs with agile ease.
From Shelley; an essay by Thompson, Francis
From the depths of her theatre trunks she produced a bewildering assortment of laces, chiffon, silks, and the filmiest of gauzes.
From West Wind Drift by McCutcheon, George Barr
His mother kissed him fondly, having received from Mr. Prohack during the day the delicatest, filmiest hint that perhaps Charlie was not at the moment fabulously prospering.
From Mr. Prohack by Bennett, Arnold
Distant mountains, with their allurements enhanced by the filmiest of purple veils.
From Mystery Ranch by Chapman, Arthur
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