mistiness

Of Thursday’s June gloom, he said: “Hate it. This kills us. It slows us down a lot on the putting greens. Just the mistiness makes it slow, like a dew on the putting greens.”

The mistiness I experienced at the end of “Funny Girl” was a purely physiological expression of gratitude.

Bax, well known to New York audiences in chamber music over the past decade, started with a tone of pristine Classicism that swiftly dissolved into washes of dreamier mistiness, without ever losing clarity.

But not a flake has fallen from the gray mistiness above.

The chorus’s temple chants at the end of the first act had eerie mistiness, as if enacting rather than just describing the birth of the world.