opalescence
Example Sentences
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Here, he is joined by the harpist Brandee Younger, who adds some lunar opalescence to his sound.
From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2024
Mering’s distinct alto has the opalescence of Karen Carpenter’s voice and the enveloping benevolence of Cass Elliot’s, though as a songwriter she shares a certain millennial poeticism with Lana Del Rey.
From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2022
His 1910 paper on "critical opalescence" explained, among other things, what?
From BBC • Mar. 9, 2011
If the Nixon Administration has acquired a reputation for somewhat gray formality, it appeared for this day to have taken on something like opalescence.
From Time Magazine Archive
Either the small shining globe was practically indestructible, or else it had been spared by some odd freak of the explosive, for it still blazed in baleful opalescence atop the shattered head.
From Astounding Stories, May, 1931 by Various
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