The morning mist rests lightly on chimneys and roofs and walls, wreathes the lamp-posts, and floats in gauzy streamers down the streets. From Wordnik.com. [The Promised Land] Reference
Dressed in gauzy white tunics, they move with a girlish sweetness that identifies them as the nymphs from Nijinsky's L'Après-Midi d'un Faune. From Wordnik.com. [Russell Maliphant Company] Reference
I saw a goddess of a woman from India over six feet tall, all legs, in gauzy white blouse unbuttoned down to her chest and up to her diaphragm. From Wordnik.com. [On the sidewalks of New York with Lance Mannion, strolling pervert] Reference
I must be getting old, because this pattern from the 1980s is engendering a kind of gauzy nostalgia instead of nausea in me. From Wordnik.com. [January 2009] Reference
SR: Can they do some kind of gauzy late-career Joan Crawford thing for you?. From Wordnik.com. [Esquire.com Article Feed] Reference
The days and months after Henry's death are both scarred in Metz's memory but also draped in a kind of gauzy memory filter. From Wordnik.com. [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference
And with a curious wile we know to mock its gauzy wing. From Wordnik.com. [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference
Freed from its gauzy confines the tea was dizzyingly strong. From Wordnik.com. [The Phantom] Reference
In their place: softer, sleeker corporate suits and gauzy gowns. From Wordnik.com. [The Donatella Style] Reference
For the most part, today's teens seem to view Sept. 11 as gauzy history. From Wordnik.com. [As Sept. 11 anniversary nears, learning lesson on tolerance at Centreville High] Reference
You get the solid, logical effect of words plus the images 'gauzy wrapper. From Wordnik.com. [David Axe: 'War Is Boring': The Lingering Images Of War In Comics? (PICTURES)] Reference
The weakest moment here comes in the form of a gauzy, Zeppelinesque ballad. From Wordnik.com. [Snap Judgement: Music] Reference
She stalks about the dining room in cut-off, blue-jean shorts and gauzy dashikis. From Wordnik.com. [The Forgetting Room 9] Reference
Her metaphysics might be gauzy, but readers will value Ms. Roth's sense of humor. From Wordnik.com. [AIRPLANE READING] Reference
Swallow shrugged, smoothing the top of a gauzy white blouse on the top of the pile. From Wordnik.com. [Perfect] Reference
It was cream on one side, brown on the other, and layered with a ton of gauzy fabric. From Wordnik.com. [Making It Work … or Not] Reference
Bill Evans 'gauzy harmonies meet Thelonious Monk's stubborn pace and percussive hammering. From Wordnik.com. [Ran Blake: Ghosts In The Piano] Reference
Too static to outline real emotions, the music dwells on the gauzy cocoons of Smith's moods. From Wordnik.com. [Joy Is A Disease. Meet The Cure.] Reference
The living room was mostly beige, with off-white trim, gauzy drapes and overstuffed couches. From Wordnik.com. [The Outlaws] Reference
Tribal sheiks, dressed in gauzy black robes, are jockeying to advance their clans 'interests. From Wordnik.com. [The 'Wolf' Who Would Be King] Reference
The gauzy material that bandaged her face snacked on her skin with a slurp, or so she thought. From Wordnik.com. [Swimming Lessons] Reference
Peach is struggling with an awful gauzy print she chose for the top above the green pencil skirt. From Wordnik.com. [Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking: Project Runway Episode 6, "You Can Totally Wear That Again"] Reference
But in Chicago, the A3 stood out like haute couture at Kmart -- a gaudy, gauzy thing in a sea of wood veneer. From Wordnik.com. [The Revolt Against Right Angles] Reference
Meanwhile, gauzy covers with shy titles signal that the literary establishment needn't take this work seriously. From Wordnik.com. [I write a nasty book. And they want a girly cover on it] Reference
Ippolita, a miracle of rose and gold, in a white gauzy robe, her hair crowned with daisies, was Queen of Love and. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
Seting aside gauzy sentimentalist notions of fair play or gratitude, let's answer that question by posing another. From Wordnik.com. [Let Him Walk!!!] Reference
Daphne Guinness, wore a floor-length gauzy gray gown designed by Calvin Klein's Francisco Costa, also in attendance. From Wordnik.com. [Cocktails at Sunset in Bridgehampton] Reference
She'd watch him cook and wish she had a long flowy gauzy skirt on so she could re-enact that scene fromSid and Nancy. From Wordnik.com. [What have you been doing with your life?] Reference
Now, looking through a gauzy shroud of snow, Harada could barely see the 35,000 frenzied fans awaiting his second and final jump. From Wordnik.com. [Anybody Seen Any Samurai Around Here?] Reference
On the company's website, Lynn is still the first radiant bride whose portrait appears in a gauzy veil, the brilliant blue sea behind her. From Wordnik.com. [On Facebook, Wife Learns Of Husband's 2nd Wedding] Reference
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