How To Use Opalescent In A Sentence
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But you aren't paying for the function, you're paying for the design, and who amongst us does not want to turn our kitchen into the microcosmic eating lounge of Aperture Science, with helpful (albeit homicidal) recycling eggs (oviposited by glorious GLaDOS herself) pristinely hovering about, electronically warbling invitations to deposit our spare cans, or perhaps just our spleens, in their plastic, opalescent bellies?
Boing Boing
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A snow-scape in almost permanent semi-opalescent darkness decentres the authority of vision and brings into the foreground the sonic environment.
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Peter Carl Fabergé designer Mikhail Perkhin, workmaster Imperial Blue Serpent Egg Gold, blue guilloche enamel, opalescent white enamel, diamonds, sapphires
'Artistic Luxury': 100-Year-Old Bling
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The sun was not idle, and the steaming thaw washed the mud and foulness from the bergs till they blazed like heaped diamonds in the brightness, or shimmered opalescent-blue.
CHAPTER 24
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Color trends on the horizon include the significant rise in the use of color ‘effects’ like metallics, opalescents and colors that change depending on the light sources.
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a milky opalescent (or opaline) luster
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They favour tiny miniskirts and opaquely opalescent tights, and have the ice-eyed look of Natashas and Laras who might at the drop of a dollar give a man more trouble than he could conceivably imagine.
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My opalescent kneecaps are somewhat bruised, and not in a good way.
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They favour tiny miniskirts and opaquely opalescent tights, and have the ice-eyed look of Natashas and Laras who might at the drop of a dollar give a man more trouble than he could conceivably imagine.
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This process helps combat the natural bitter flavour of the drink and releases its brilliant opalescent green colour.
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Tonight, and only tonight, the opalescent squid will mate.
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Beyond Zeberged the sky grew dark with clouds, hanging heavy in the sky like thick, opalescent gauze.
LORD PRESTIMION
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In a period of time varying from a few seconds to a quarter of an hour, according to the amount of albumen present, a delicate opalescent zone forms at the point of junction, and if mucin also is present, a more diffused haze higher up in the urine.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887
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She didn't notice the pretty opalescent shells washed up on the beach.
JUST BETWEEN US
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The pallid double-moons gleamed silver, highlighting some of the leaves, and he could see beams of the opalescent light fall through the breaks in the trees.
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It is wise in the hot weather to pull the purdah, which is the Indian way of saying to shut the door, in the face of a young and unattached girl with a tawny head and opalescent eyes; especially if the dust has long been undisturbed upon the threshold of the secret places of the male heart supposed to be entirely in your keeping.
Leonie of the Jungle
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Hand dyed opalescent fabrics are an incredible touch to any project... Opalescent fabrics have a shinny thread weaved through out the fabric to give it sparkle.
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Stone-age; and, somewhat curiously, the locality of that stone blade is fixed, by its being of that semi-transparent opalescent calcedony which
Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern
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It's not the intensely bright colour of summer lilies, irises, poppies and daylilies, but the deeper gem tones of ruby-rose sedums, amethyst ajuga and opalescent anemones.
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I found a pink raw silk jacket with covered buttons, a soft leopard vest and a cream wool shell covered with opalescent sequins and beads.
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This colorless, solid cream works to temporarily fill in lines and large pores, and leaves a soft, opalescent finish that feels very silky.
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They had a ghostly, opalescent similarity.
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With unbounded flair, Tia couples opalescent shades of princess and oyster in the finest cotton with stiff denim to capture the edgy allure of modern London.
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Of course, Louis Comfort Tiffany is most famous for the stained-glass windows and lighting featuring his patented opalescent glassmaking techniques.
Window on a Lush Life
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In the centrepiece warped opalescent planet-images seemed to spill over gold, mechanical star-figures.
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To the observer of the aura the term "opalescent" instinctly presents itself, for there is a striking resemblance to the opaline peculiar play of colors of delicate tints and shades in a body of pearly or milky hue.
The Human Aura Astral Colors and Thought Forms
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One of opalescent glass contains a bathroom; the other, suspended above the sitting room, is the main bedroom, a capsule under a translucent illuminated ceiling.
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He'll take you to algal forests, sponge gardens and places where huge schools of blue maomao churn the sea into an opalescent whirlpool.
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An arrangement of peacock feather tips decorated the top of the canopy, and white feather trimming cascaded down each of the columns into a pool of opalescent and white round glass ornaments resembling oversized pearls.
My Fair Wedding
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Wings spread, it appears poised for flight, ready to soar over Lake Michigan, an opalescent blue in early summer.
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One of these, dark-skinned but with speckles no darker than light amber, armed only with a heavy dagger, came over and clapped von Schlichten on the shoulder, grinning opalescently.
Uller Uprising
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Or maybe you're doing more of a queen-of the-underworld thing, in which case you'll dig the Persephone design: an earthy-green drop flanked by opalescent beads.
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A snow-scape in almost permanent semi-opalescent darkness decentres the authority of vision and brings into the foreground the sonic environment.
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Peter Carl Fabergé designer Mikhail Perkhin, workmaster Imperial Blue Serpent Egg Gold, blue guilloche enamel, opalescent white enamel, diamonds, sapphires
'Artistic Luxury': 100-Year-Old Bling
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Both the bowl and the foot of the vase are blown in plate blue transparent glass infused with fragmented bits of silver leaf and random streaks of opalescent glass.
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This colorless, solid cream works to temporarily fill in lines and large pores, and leaves a soft, opalescent finish that feels very silky.
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She was a crafter of clay fairies, and beside her camping site was a small wooded patch she decorated with mini Christmas tree lights, opalescent ornaments, and her fairies.
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And what a vision it was; the newspaper describes the sweet treat thus: "The bean, of red and gold, has an opalescent beauty, like some piece of ancient amber.
April Daniels Hussar: The 10 Craziest Moments of Royal Wedding Frenzy Yet
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They seemed to have the contrary effect, making him irritable; and though he made up his mind to watch the stars peer out through the opalescent sky -- he did not call it opalescent, for the simple word dusky took its place -- even their soft light had no effect upon him, and to come to the result at once the would-be sleeper gave it up at last for a bad job.
In the Mahdi's Grasp
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If the full moon is bright, I stroll over to the base of Yosemite Falls and look into the mist for the shimmering, opalescent “moonbow.”
Yosemite's Rock Stars
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In late afternoon the white sand flew in tatters across the dissolving sun, an opalescent filter, the sky radiating throbbing waves of bruised purple, cobalt and amethyst into the slim gray shred of sand making the horizon.
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I found a pink raw silk jacket with covered buttons, a soft leopard vest and a cream wool shell covered with opalescent sequins and beads.
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A fog had arisen, and the struggling rosy beams of the sun glimmered opalescently through the density.
Other Things Being Equal
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With unbounded flair, Tia couples opalescent shades of princess and oyster in the finest cotton with stiff denim to capture the edgy allure of modern London.
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Because of its east location there is a moment in the morning when the window glows with the shining light of rebirth, but because of the reflective qualities of opalescent glass, it also shows up brightly in other lighting conditions.
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Built using curved douglas fir plywood and tubular steel, everything is delicately illuminated by an opalescent storage wall and luminous bricks.
Holley House by Hanrahan Meyers Architects
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Gonnardite typically has a silky, almost opalescent luster, and it may exhibit a faint concentric banding.
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And where is the miraculous, opalescent thing of beauty headed next?
April Daniels Hussar: The 10 Craziest Moments of Royal Wedding Frenzy Yet
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The light that we shine on the opalescent mixture reflects back in every color, at every scale.
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The glowing, greenish-yellow opalescent gemstones caught the flash of the sun from beyond the door.
A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
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With unbounded flair, Tia couples opalescent shades of princess and oyster in the finest cotton with stiff denim to capture the edgy allure of modern London.
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The moon rose, an opalescent goddess tipping light from her harsh maternal scimitar.
WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
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Here is a jade-coloured conglomeration of life resembling nothing in the world more than a loose handful of worms without beginning and without end, interloped and writhing and glowing as it writhes with opalescent fires; and here a tiny leafless shrub, jointed with each alternate joint, ivory, white, and ruby-red respectively; again this tracery of gold and green and salmon pink decorating a shiny stone, in formal and consistent pattern.
My Tropic Isle
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Designer glass blocks in clear and opalescent colors add a rich touch and they're readily available in stackable, no-mortar designs.
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I allude to the phase of the aura which presents the "pearly" appearance of the opalescent body, which we have just noted.
The Human Aura Astral Colors and Thought Forms
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In these altar mosaics, iridescent Favrile glass, Tiffany's trademark in other work, was rejected in favor of opalescent Favrile glass and Byzantine style tesserae made with gold leaf.
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Hard to miss, especially by night divers, whose lights catch the gleam from its huge opalescent eyes, is the ratfish, which cruises by on wing-like pectoral fins.
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The core is white, white, and a flicker of blue, opalescent, unimaginable -
Places You Haunt
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At Badgley Mischka, beads were everywhere, from pearls to garnet cat's eye crystals to opalescent moonstones.
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‘This is a marvelous stone,’ Seiriô exclaimed, entranced by its glassy luster in the opalescent light.
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A detailed structural investigation on the nature of such aggregates is well beyond the aim of this work, although we noticed a considerable increase of turbidity of the protein solution that became opalescent.
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This sense of a calm veneer hiding seething depths also afflicts the movie's other unearthly surface - the opalescent face and underwater-green eyes of Swinton herself.
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At Badgley Mischka, beads were everywhere, from pearls to garnet cat's eye crystals to opalescent moonstones.
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‘This is a marvelous stone,’ Seiriô exclaimed, entranced by its glassy luster in the opalescent light.
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He had her name put on the sides in big, bold opalescent green, hoping it would reflect like the shimmerings of an imaginary dragon.
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Oh – the purple blue opalescent is my fav, followed by the blue-red.
Kater’s Art » Blog Archive » December 2008 Ornaments
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Hand dyed opalescent fabrics are an incredible touch to any project... Opalescent fabrics have a shinny thread weaved through out the fabric to give it sparkle.
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At Badgley Mischka, beads were everywhere, from pearls to garnet cat's eye crystals to opalescent moonstones.
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Mountains of fresh cucumbers, radishes, and green onions, whole heads of romaine, and delicate, opalescent peeled white onions.
Day of Honey
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This colorless, solid cream works to temporarily fill in lines and large pores, and leaves a soft, opalescent finish that feels very silky.
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Then a magpie began to pipe his arpeggios, which sounded sweet and clear in the morning air; and this seemed to be the signal to start a chorus of whistling and shrieking up in the thick boughs, where a flock of paroquets were hidden; and a glow in the east made the morning grey look so opalescently beautiful that it was hard to believe there could be any danger.
First in the Field A Story of New South Wales
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Hard to miss, especially by night divers, whose lights catch the gleam from its huge opalescent eyes, is the ratfish, which cruises by on wing-like pectoral fins.
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Robineau used a semiopaque white glaze tinted with copper, which yields greens that range in tone from a pale opalescent turquoise to a stronger green on the cover, stand, and medallions.
