How To Use Gauzy In A Sentence
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Some women wear a shayla, a black gauzy scarf wrapped around the head and held in place by a variety of hats, head circlets, or jewelry.
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Combined together, the inner layer appears diffused and gauzy, successfully creating the illusion of depth and reflection.
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One of them featured a famous photograph of a gauzy Laura Ashley skirt barely concealing the sunshine-silhouetted thighs of a kindergarten aide named Diana Spencer.
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Molly stood up in surprise and noticed that she was now wearing a gauzy dress of iridescent white.
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Furnished sparely with two easels and several chairs to underscore the physical proximity of the artists when they inhabited the studio together, it was enclosed by gauzy translucent walls so that it could be peered into but not entered.
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The nipped waistlines of men's tight pantaloons and the gauzy fabrics of women's empire dresses flattered youthful figures, and in fact, copied the kinds of clothing worn by young children.
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The lounge is decorated with low-slung ottomans and gauzy white curtains and sits between a long, curving bar and a somewhat haphazardly appointed dining area.
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True to its name, it was decorated luxuriously in shades of blue, from the mostly blue stained glass in one of the windows to gauzy blue cloth on the tabletops.
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Gauzy, beaded, to-the-floor gowns that were slashed at the back (tastefully rather than tartily) made a pleasing antidote to Eighties-style excess.
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They will do what they do because just under the gauzy veil of their fulminations they know that to deal in matters of truth would require effort and worse, an exposure of just how weak and cowardly they actually are.
Like Hell Needs A Heat Wave...
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But the gauzy Norman Rockwell normality he invoked won't persuade the electorate at a time of 10 percent unemployment, the Damocles sword that hangs over his head for 2012, when voters will get a chance to weigh in directly on his presidency, which he has largely placed in the hands of Ivy League meritocrats more concerned with protecting their wealthy coevals than the general public.
Jacob Heilbrunn: Obama's Tactical Press Conference
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In most research settings, observers sit in the dark watching an illuminated vivarium, peer through gauzy curtains, or observe by means of remote video surveillance.
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`My mother," he said, pointing to a dark-haired woman wearing something gauzy, dewy-eyed, with slightly parted lips.
THE GOLDEN LION
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Sometimes, the "zooty" was my pharm-fueled metronome as I danced dementedly through a gauzy awareness in the Grand Ballroom of the Hotel Diplomat.
Barry Michael Cooper: Requiem For The Zooted
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LET THE RIGHT ONE IN rocks a core ethereality that makes it seem an heir to the gauzy dreamscape of Carl Th.
My Bloodyguard
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If that were not ostracism enough, the women -- depicted so often as shy and demure in gauzy works of fiction with titles like that of Lee's play -- begin taking turns beating the daylights out of her.
Review: 'Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven' at Studio Theatre
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Sadly, the good vibes wore off very quickly as we became depressed by the gauzy colours, dark underpainting and lackluster watercolours.
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A delicate wing, gauzy and transparent, spread in her hands, spanning her fingers, its lacy intricacy provoking a thoughtful quietness, a sad wistfulness.
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gauzy clouds of dandelion down
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Many of the ancient buildings were draped in gauzy white sheets with a slight outline of the building behind painted in blue or gold.
The Two Continents Of Istanbul
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A tense energy hovers about these forms that float just above or just beneath gauzy clouds of paint.
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Gauzy pale blue curtains hang over the windows and flutter in the breeze.
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The vague antipathy to American sovereignty and the gauzy support for an unexamined ‘open borders’ concept degrades real immigrants in real ways.
Matthew Yglesias » Climate Migration
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The gauzy curtains might represent flimsy barriers that will be easy for you to push through to get what you need.
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In Davos this week, Ms. Chua shuttled busily from one klieg-lit event to another, as much in media demand as any penurious head of state or gauzy movie star.
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It's very gauzy and kind of encased in fluff and nostalgia, and it doesn't express the real history of the parkway at all.
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Look for gauzy dresses, which can be slid on top of one another, or teamed with trousers, skirts or lightweight knits.
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My hair was in ringlets, pinned to my head under the gauzy material of a veil, and the dried roses in my hands released the odd petal.
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And the lady friends who are invited to the picnic are arrayed in the lightest of attire - gauzy looking white or coloured dresses that seem as though a puff of wind would float them away and leave their owners lamenting.
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She was dressed now in a silk woven gauzy nightgown.
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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.
Russell Maliphant Company
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I broke some ribs once—the doctor mummied me up in swirls of white, gauzy wrapping.
Smile for the Camera
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If the denim cutoffs and gauzy blouses don't suit, the hand-embroidered bags and horse-bit loafers will.
Times, Sunday Times
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You're going to be wearing a long white dress, kind of gauzy looking, with a satin pink shawl around your shoulders.
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The only indefinite features in Degas's paintings and multi-hatched pastels are the gauzy skirts of his ballerinas.
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A week or so before the horrific events of September 11, 2001, I had a dream, a nightmare about something that happened, something big and awful, and in those gauzy in-between moments upon awakening I began to imagine a story about a global nightmare, an epidemic cauchemar that would breach the fourth wall of sleep and change the way people would relate to one another.
Hasta la vista
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Beneath the gauzy trills the rhythm was firmly sprung.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's Michael Stipe on his back, singing through a gauzy tissue of metaphors and soft, honest statements.
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The dark metal is just visible through a translucent external wall made of gauzy stretched fabric.
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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.
On the sidewalks of New York with Lance Mannion, strolling pervert
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Little Kitty Bonner, fairylike in gauzy lawn, with pinkest of cheeks and bluest of dancing eyes, arms outstretched and lips puckered in invitation, was striving to kiss the boy.
THE STORY OF JEES UCK
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For him, artists at their best are like Romantic heroes engaged with insurmountable crises or like prophets of a gauzy future.
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Other must-pack items include a sarong and gauzy shirts; both are compact and go the distance.
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Wind whipping her gauzy skirt against her hips, she sashayed towards him.
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I have a secret affection for the older hippie stores where incense strokes your throat as you walk in to check out the miniature Buddhas, candle holders and gauzy dresses.
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We all remembered the way the last one started - that alien-green sky alive with tracer fire, gauzy detonations, muffled thumps, unconsolable sirens.
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Dressed in something fabulously gauzy, a young ballerina demonstrated plies and tendues, frappes and grands battements, rond de jambes and fondues.
Wishing For Limber Limbs
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The gauzy fabric was extremely soft and light, yet somehow not diaphanous.
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He is swathed in gauzy film, and from a distance, he casts a very effective evil chill upon the block.
Carine Fabius: What Can the Power of Art Accomplish?
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But for this year's autumn collection, Donna Karan says she chose to show layered ensembles featuring several pieces in gauzy, flowing fabrics such as a "wisp dress" made of silk chiffon jersey and "bathrobe" dresses.
Runway Report
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It was long and gauzy; it felt like something that should be worn to a masquerade ball, or a prom.
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She was wearing a broad brimmed hat, dressed in a gauzy summer dress.
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She was wearing a dress of pale muslin, sari-style, that clung like a gauzy skin but flounced out below the knee above thonged sandals; one ivory shoulder and both arms were bare, and as she swept towards me with a swift graceful stride the flimsy material outlined her figure - gad, it was all there.
THE NUMBERS
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It was now June, and the weather was warm, and the lady wore a light gauzy black dress, — there is a fabric which the milliners I think call grenadine, — coming close up round her throat.
The Way We Live Now
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She has been standing - in sparkly high heels - behind her counter since 1987: a light-reflecting marvel in a gauzy dress, faux jewels and a mauve picture hat.
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The mellow tracks mix gauzy female harmonies with easy rhythms for a swoony effect.
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I'm careful with her sunblock, and I make her wear a gauzy ankle length pareo, skimming the thin straps of her narrow sandals.
Poetry Friday - The Collected Works of Susan Ramsey
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Ostrich feathers enveloped everything, covering the abbreviated bolero jackets, squashed between two gauzy layers of tulle on the second-skin gowns and sprouting from the hips or haunches of catsuits in racy black lace.
Balmain, Zac Posen, Rick Owens & Manish Arora Out Of This World In Paris (PHOTOS, POLL)
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Drinks served by flirtatious cocktail waitresses in gauzy blouses unbuttoned to the middles of their chests and skirts slit up to the hip so that they can reach the holsters attached to their garters and draw cigars, lighters, and clippers on command.
A master of the universe plots his own downfall
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In the gathering darkness, the smoke rising across the way formed a gauzy, cobweblike curtain that ascended from the land to the sky.
String Theory, Book 3: Evolution
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It is made of a red gauzy material with sequins and decorative beads sewn in a loopy design on the front, and, as decided, it is long with tiny straps and a small slit down one side.
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Despite the attention lavished on telegenic backdrops and gauzy imagery, spoken words still matter in politics.
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Chicago quartet L' Altra make music for rainy Sundays: gentle, gauzy and not a little wistful.
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It was a dismal picture—the light was bleak and the cloud-capped sky was gauzy and pale; the buildings and lampposts were smears of charcoal.
The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre
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Gauzy silk and chiffon gowns in floral prints with pops of red and electric blue rounded out the collection.
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It traced a path of wandering silver across the ocean, glinting on metaled dolphins and the gauzy wings of flying fish.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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It was high off the floor, curtained by a thin gauzy material and shrouded in dark despite the sunlight filtering through the window.
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Together these gauzy translucent curtains approximate the colors of the sunset and reinforce the house's nautical theme.
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Sadly, the good vibes wore off very quickly as we became depressed by the gauzy colours, dark underpainting and lackluster watercolours.
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Initially, there are no drones at all, and the first one to enter is provided not by big, gauzy, echoing synths, but an organ.
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Sadly, the good vibes wore off very quickly as we became depressed by the gauzy colours, dark underpainting and lackluster watercolours.
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But it does have a brief and gauzy beauty.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the gauzy and fluffy and varnishy little drawing-room Reardon found a youngish gentleman already in conversation with the widow and her daughter.
New Grub Street
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In keeping with the nostalgic tone of the movie, he presents things in a gauzy brown-and-white with a thin sheen of color.
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One of the picks I sampled was a red gauzy dress, with a modest neckline and a diagonal hem at my knees.
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I layered my hair, I wore clogs, I floated around in gauzy peasant shirts and played my folk guitar.
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From the earliest days of his government, he very consciously turned the Dome into an emblem of "New Britain," Blair's earnest if gauzy vision of a revitalized postimperial, postindustrial nation that, as he has said, "will not be the mightiest nation of the 21st century in size or population, but ... can be the best.
Why The Dome Was A Dud
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Gauzy coronas of pubic hair, technicolor dreampubes of every shade.
The Original Playboy Aesthetic | clusterflock
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And the lady friends who are invited to the picnic are arrayed in the lightest of attire - gauzy looking white or coloured dresses that seem as though a puff of wind would float them away and leave their owners lamenting.
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Fragile evening wear and gauzy dresses hugged every curve.
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If that were not ostracism enough, the women -- depicted so often as shy and demure in gauzy works of fiction with titles like that of Lee's play -- begin taking turns beating the daylights out of her.
Review: 'Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven' at Studio Theatre
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In his attire he closely resembles the towhee, or "chewink," of the East, but has as an extra ornament a beautiful sprinkling of white on his back and wings, which makes him look as if he had thrown a gauzy mantle of silver over his shoulders.
Birds of the Rockies
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This is romance without the gauzy focus and war without the heroics.
Christianity Today
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A gauzy veil of white covered her head, like a cerement of the grave.
Nevermore
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The set designed by Rosas consisted of gauzy drapery of brilliant yellow hung in scallops across the center stage, while a somber gray archway loomed behind it upstage center.
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Imagine if this presidential election cycle, rather than trading in gauzy platitudes on one hand, and restatements of indurated positions on the other, could actually rise to the level of debating the philosophical issues that derive from legitimate questions about the role of government in our lives.
Adam Hanft: Gun Control, Health Privacy, 5-4: Time for a Conversation About... Ugh... Philosophy
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It was now June, and the weather was warm, and the lady wore a light gauzy black dress, -- there is a fabric which the milliners I think call grenadine, -- coming close up round her throat.
The Way We Live Now
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My one regret as I tooled back to London was that I hadn't been able to bid a riotous farewell to Caprice; she'd been worth the trip, ne'er mind spoking Otto's wheel, and I found myself smiling fondly as I thought of Punch and the gauzy lace clinging to that houri shape in the sunlight ...
Watershed
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Her waist, tight-cinctured, was -- which is the highest praise -- not ultra-fashionable, and the undulations of her gauzy drapery disclosed, as she receded, enough of ankle and crural adjacency to furnish hints of improvement to most classical sculptors.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
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Several of those arrested went directly into blue gauzy jumpsuits, meaning they were parole violators and were going to be shipped right back to prison at Chino.
Ron's Log
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There are some poetic moments in this essay, beautiful descriptions of organs “It [the liver] laps over the pink sweep of the stomach, from whose lower border the gauzy omentum is draped, and through which veil one sees, sinuous, slow as just-fed snakes, the indolent coils of the intestine.”
Personal Essay Class, Week Six « So Many Books
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And the trim: thin strips of fluttering color to edge your sewing, bobbling tassels and piping and the thin, gauzy brilliance of translucent ribbon.
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Suspended within multiple layers of the building structure, the effect of this gauzy translucence is to elevate space into an experience of lightness and weightlessness.
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But there was no chance in hell I could get my hands on that baby, so I settled for the blue gauzy dress that lay on my bed.
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Video footage of her streams on a backdrop of gauzy curtains.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her aunt was allergic to beestings, and was presently swaddled from the top of her straw 'brera to the hem of her faded garden dress in gauzy stuff that made her look peculiar in strong light and downright eerie in shade.
Wizard and Glass
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She'd lost that awful wig but the wet, gauzy dress was almost transparent.
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Another repetitive melodic pattern, this time on acoustic guitar, gradually transforms into a primordial soup of computer bleeps, clicks, and eventually, thin tendrils of gauzy drone.
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Just the name 'Zanzibar' conjures images of harem girls giggling behind gauzy veils, carved wooden doors opening to spice-filled rooms and other images from The Thousand and One Nights.
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I could feel gauzy bandages wrapped around my forehead, and I could feel the plastic tubing taped to my upper lip to help me breathe.
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Opaque during the day, the perforated screens have a seductive, gauzy translucence after dark, as light diffuses through the fine mesh.