gauzy
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The gauzy light that flows in from both sides of the screened-in room and the palette—countless tones of gray—bring to mind the interiors of Vilhelm Hammershøi.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Of course, ABC would make one of its core players the gauzy focus of a post-Oscars special, doted on by many of the 22 women who came before Paul.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2026
The Japanese superstar emerged onto Rod Laver Arena for her first-round clash on Tuesday carrying a white parasol with matching wide-brimmed hat and long gauzy veil.
From Barron's ● Jan. 21, 2026
It's an album of intimate, gauzy pop, almost entirely drumless and built around hypnotic musical loops that short-circuit your emotions.
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2025
A gauzy veil stretched around the perimeter like curtains on a four-poster bed.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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Other recommendations are gauzier, such as carving out no-tech family time and petitioning schools to go phone-free.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
Verdon Winkler employs multiple techniques, notably drypoint and chine collé, to produce gauzier, almost painterly images in what might be called a rainbow of grays.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 7, 2021
It all adds up to vapor, an escalating unreality made even gauzier by the indications that the earth has reached the terminal stage of its human infection.
From The New Yorker ● May 21, 2019
Ms. Hammer’s gauzier sequences notwithstanding, the film’s most commanding image is the housekeeper’s description of the ruthless monasticism Bishop maintained and the compulsive writing she practiced in her studio.
From New York Times ● May 25, 2015
Here was no vulgar yellow, no crass and hackneyed gold … and yet there was a clarified and gauzier shade of gold … the color of the moon by daylight, say….
From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by James Branch Cabell
Although one of the thinnest and gauziest of modern silk fabrics, it is relatively strong considering its lightness.
From Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades by William H. (William Henry) Dooley
Of course there was mess-table talk—but that is always the gauziest myth.
From The Tempering by Charles Neville Buck
Some flowers look as if they were encased in ice, and others seem wrapped in the gauziest of veils, which, flimsy as it looks, cannot be completely cleared from the leaves.
From A Bird-Lover in the West by Olive Thorne Miller
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