kaleidoscope

In even as short a lifetime as hers, the author writes, it is “like a memory kaleidoscope, shifting and revealing.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

Fireworks flared in a kaleidoscope of brilliant colours.

From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2026

"Instead of becoming a truly global power, Europe remains a beautiful but fragmented kaleidoscope of small and middle powers," he said during his trip to Davos.

From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026

"Instead of becoming a truly global power, Europe remains a beautiful but fragmented kaleidoscope of small and middle powers," he said.

From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026

For all their pre-eminence in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, composers from Austria and Germany would soon be competing for attention with a kaleidoscope of musical stars from elsewhere, notably Russia, France and the USA.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

They’re like giant kaleidoscopes, suspended midair, inside a glorious relic from the turn of the last century.

From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2023

No wonder these swarms are, evocatively, also called kaleidoscopes.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 1, 2022

His “Photograms” are kaleidoscopes of shape and colour so glorious that the complexity of their composition quickly fades from the mind.

From Economist ● Sep. 27, 2017

Slow motion of water droplets illuminated to look like starbursts breaking apart midair, kaleidoscopes of smoke rings and skin rippling away from the pressure of an explosion are simply stunning in vivid color and contrast.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 3, 2017

The huge cypress trees she and her father pass on their morning walk are shimmering kaleidoscopes, each needle a polygon of light.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr