How To Use Sepia In A Sentence

  • The window well included about a dozen of these pillow-pods in sepia tones, some of them soft enough to drape slightly as they hung over a horizontal divider.
  • Largely he was happy in his perfectly toned sepia world. Times, Sunday Times
  • The period detail has been painstakingly recreated and it is shot in a sombre palette of olive greens and sepia tones.
  • The whole state has kind of a cowboy-Saudi glitter to it when the oil is expensive, and kind of a sepia-Joad craquelure to it when the oil is cheap. Kenneth Hite's Journal
  • It's a familiar and rather well-worn mechanic, but the sepia-toned graphical overlay is a stylish touch and the extravagant rag doll physics sends your victim rocketing through the air like a crazed acrobat, which is fun to behold and suitably reminiscent of a Peckinpah bloodbath. Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
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  • The problem is that I have no first-hand knowledge of the past in Alice Springs except sepia prints of people in suits and big frilly skirts.
  • Populated by grotesques and caricatures it was a love/hate letter for an England fading into sepia.
  • The robed and turbaned figures moving slowly across a sepia ground on the first screen are drawn from an 1895 film.
  • The wallpaper was a sepia-toned print of acanthus leaves; the carpet had plate-sized pink roses all over it. T2©: RISING STORM
  • The sepia coloured calendar, which is selling well, is available from the Canal Street pub at £3.99.
  • The result is a good, yellow-brown mustardy colour that is rather different to that obtained by straight sepia toning.
  • The ball was a deep sepia, veneered with dirt and turf and generational sweat—it was old, bunged up, it was bashed and tobacco-juiced and stained by natural processes and by the lives behind it, weather-spattered and charactered as a seafront house. Underworld
  • The effect built into cheaper cameras include things like sepia and cobalt tone, posterizing, solarizing and so forth.
  • West Texas generally offers landscapes of muted colors - sepia earth and vast sun-bleached skies - but this canyon cradles a riparian forest of big-tooth maple, alligator juniper, and chinquapin oak.
  • As the days grow shorter and cooler, plants take on new personas, ripening into warm gold, russet, and sepia tones.
  • Each shows the head and shoulders of young woman in tones of pinky sepia on the left, partnered by a fragment of landscape on the right.
  • The film is sepia toned, except for the final shot, which is unnecessarily shown in color.
  • And all these sepia-toned images are lent strength by the gentle poetry of the lyrics, and the light, front-porch swing of the acoustic guitars, banjos, mandolins and strings.
  • He's even made the cards sepia-toned, as if they'd slightly yellowed with age.
  • This stark palette fades to sepia, then finally emerges into full color.
  • Make your way past the alabaster nudes and sepia prints of West in better days; step over the polar bear shagpile rug, and into the salmon-pink inner sanctum of her boudoir, and what would you find?
  • Also available in sepia or grey, they can be customised. Times, Sunday Times
  • The positions of magenta, sepia, lanceolate, and short were also adjusted to reflect this change in the map.
  • Five homeopathic medicines were used: Lachesis, Natrum muriaticum, Nux vomica, Pulsatilla, and Sepia. Mark Hyman, MD: Eliminate Suffering From PMS In 5 Simple Steps
  • The results, published in the European Journal of Lipid Science and Technology, show that Omega 3 fatty acids are present in all fish roe, but especially in the eggs of Atlantic bonito (Sarda sarda), mackerel (Scomber scombrus), squid (Loligo vulgaris), cuttlefish (Sepia sp.), lumpsucker (Cyclopterus lumpus), hake PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
  • Sepia toning originally was developed to extend the archival life of early black-and-white silver-based prints.
  • And so we have a blue veined marble in the living room, a sepia tinged marble in the bedroom and a pink-streaked one in my mother-in-law's room.
  • It's shot in a clunky retro-futurist style, and the director declares himself influenced by Fritz Lang, filling his screen with eerie, gigantic hardware shot in mouldy, decaying, soft-focus sepia.
  • At least some of these more modern impressions may have been printed with sepia-colored ink instead of the black used in earlier examples.
  • She was no different, an icon of gold, camouflaged against the beige and sepia surroundings of Alexandria.
  • First comes the hippy California dad – long hair, screechy kids, lots of sunny white light; then the awkward writer, all tweedy fustiness with a sepia tint; and finally the designer, dressed in requisite black geek glasses and cool blue tones. The Hard Sell: American Airlines
  • The postcard itself was a moody affair, a dark sepia scene of a cityscape that was gloom itself.
  • First comes the hippy California dad – long hair, screechy kids, lots of sunny white light; then the awkward writer, all tweedy fustiness with a sepia tint; and finally the designer, dressed in requisite black geek glasses and cool blue tones. The Hard Sell: American Airlines
  • Rolling over to find sweet relief from his side, he stared blankly at the ceiling, a grubby grotto of sepia walls.
  • The walls are hung with pioneer relics and sepia photos of monster reptile trophies. Times, Sunday Times
  • I've heard a rumour that, if you process a film to have a slight brownish or sepia tint, it's almost like a built-in filter so it does something neat to the contrast when you print it.
  • And if you like sepia photographs, transfer your existing pictures into ill-fitting frames to allow the nicotine to seep behind the glass. Times, Sunday Times
  • Make your way past the alabaster nudes and sepia prints of West in better days; step over the polar bear shagpile rug, and into the salmon-pink inner sanctum of her boudoir, and what would you find?
  • As the days grow shorter and cooler, plants take on new personas, ripening into warm gold, russet, and sepia tones.
  • They seem slightly underexposed, and a sepia tone gives them the look of faded vintage photographs.
  • The female calamary spawns at sea; and it emits the spawn, as does the sepia, in the mass. The History of Animals
  • The sepia tone was beautifully reproduced and each photograph was pin sharp.
  • It's pretentious but marginally better than the sepia toned one where I'm cradling a small baby.
  • On the other, the characters, as pictured, are recognizably African-American -- Rapunzel's long hair is braided in dreads -- not just sepia-toned drawings of white people. Archive 2006-12-01
  • In studying a 13th-century scroll where nine scaly dragons writhe through a sepia mist, Mr. Li focused on a spot near the center where the brume twists into a spiral. How to Talk Back to a Chinese Master
  • Author, educator and activist W.E.B. Du Bois, captured in a sepia-toned image, is shown in profile, looking thoughtful and introspective.
  • In contrast to the smaller book, however, the large book (with its helpful plastic cover) lushly renders each project in colour and in gorgeous black, sepia and white.
  • And the sepia portrait, taken in a shopping mall studio, could have saved his life. The Sun
  • I bought several bottles of sepia ink in a Paris ink shop today, as I've used almost a bottle of brown ink on this tour.
  • Male mountain nyala are a sepia brown color that slowly gets darker with age, while females are of a pale liver color with a scattering of spots and stripes.
  • Don't re-use the blue or dilute sepia toners.
  • With skin tone colors of apricot, tan, sepia, mahogany, salmon, raw sienna, and burnt sienna, white was used primarily to alter shades and create a layered tint.
  • Or, if you're the artsy that is to say pretentious type and you prefer pontification to Fofonov, I'm pleased to present this sepia-toned interpretation of my censored version for your delectation: From Hankies to Hanky-Panky: Porn and Product Placement
  • They want to send photos with a sepia tint or messages that self-destruct, but not all in one place. Times, Sunday Times
  • Each advert screened sepia film clips of suffragettes marching with banners proclaiming the need for votes for women. Times, Sunday Times
  • Painters en camaieu wanted only one color, often sepia or black. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
  • Without using paint, brushes, pencil, charcoal or any other conventional tools, she makes images in shades of grey, black, yellow and sepia.
  • One of the smaller plates from the set, a four-foot-long cutaway drawing in pleasantly soft sepia tones, hangs over my couch, and has followed me from Notre Dame to New York and finally to Milwaukee, a reminder that I must measure myself — success and failure alike — not against my peers, but against the great cathedral-builders of old, who had to think big as a matter of course. Matthew Alderman in Dappled Things
  • Various brown inks, principally solutions of bistre and sepia, were adopted in sketching by Claude, Rembrandt, and many of the old masters. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
  • In one of the neighborhoods I lived in there was a classic corner candy store, one that had a long formica counter flanked by revolving red-topped stools; behind the counter was perched a sea-green malted mixer, a bleacher stacked with Neccos, Chuckles, B-B Bats and Yoo-Hoos, a large tarnished griddle upon which hamburger patties and home fries hissed and popped, and the whole space seemingly lit in sepia. Steven Weber: In a Sense, Abroad Part Trois: I's Real, Oy!
  • Nose, ears, and feet are covered with dark sepia hairs and the tail hairs are almost black.
  • The sepia toner takes longer to act than normal and 5 minutes should be allowed.
  • The paintings seem at first to be sombre in tone, coloured mostly by umbers and sepia-like hues.
  • Molluscs are all carnivorous; and of molluscs the calamary and the sepia are more than a match for fishes even of the large species. The History of Animals
  • The top ones were drawn on cartridge paper and then painted in watercolour using sepia colour paint, and the bottom ones were painted straight onto watercolour paper using light red.
  • The DVD packaging is striking, a nice sepia-toned box with a classy fold-out inside to hold the DVDs.
  • Molluscs are best in the breeding time, as the calamary, the sepia, and the octopus. The History of Animals
  • Other immediate color associations which come to mind: sepia tones and oddball diner to-go cartons, goldenrod mimeographs, and the wild chartreuse decor of mid-1990s urban splendor.
  • From one single egg comes one single sepia; and this is likewise true of the young calamary. The History of Animals
  • A blue toner alone cannot produce brown or red tones, but in conjunction with sepia and gold toners excellent examples of both are possible.
  • Australia's so bright, Ireland is so green, and wet, and America has this sort of sepia brown colour that has a lot to do with the portraits you show of the Native Americans.
  • In the larger of these, the backgrounds are sepia, white, black, deep yellow, peachy sienna.
  • Your little tribe matters more than anything: for years the rest of the world fades to sepia tones. Times, Sunday Times
  • Author, educator and activist W.E.B. Du Bois, captured in a sepia-toned image, is shown in profile, looking thoughtful and introspective.
  • This little collection comprises ten porcelain and eight copper examples, all very carefully painted in polychrome enamels, sepia, and encre de Chine.
  • Compared with one another, the teuthis, or calamary, is long-shaped, and the sepia flat-shaped; and of the calamaries the so-called teuthus is much bigger than the teuthis; for teuthi have been found as much as five ells long. The History of Animals
  • The cinematography is faultless, combining pale green and sepia tints to allow the grittiness of a bounty hunter's profession to pervade, involving the audience in the action.
  • ‘First meal at a fine restaurant,’ I speculated to myself, savoring a custardy bite of 1015 onion flan and spearing a spring onion, its green top squiggling across the plate and its tart beurre blanc gleaming in the sepia-toned light.
  • The colour is a kind of brownish sepia and reminds one of old, well-loved photographs.
  • A diver's suspended body defines the topmost edge of a soft sepia-gray sky.
  • I read the book, written in 1909, at a small New Hampshire girls’ camp—run by an elderly Congregationalist minister and his wife and itself past its prime—curled up on a worn velvet sofa in an outbuilding called the Lodge, whose walls were hung with Indian blankets and sepia photographs of girls in togas doing eurythmic dances in a forest clearing. Cinderella Comstock « educating alice
  • Nose, ears, and feet are covered with dark sepia hairs and the tail hairs are almost black.
  • As good a formula as any is: Potass ferricyanide, 300 grains; potass bromide, 100 grains, water 20 ounces; Ammonium bromide may be used in place of the potassium salt in the above formula; the difference is not marked, but the ammonium compound tends to give a somewhat warmer brown or sepia. Bromide Printing and Enlarging A Practical Guide to the Making of Bromide Prints by Contact and Bromide Enlarging by Daylight and Artificial Light, With the Toning of Bromide Prints and Enlargements
  • After toning in sepia or brown toner, treat prints for 2 to 5 minutes in working solution.
  • His Grozny, delicate as a doily, shows the ruins of the bombed Chechen capital dissolving in quavering sepia contours like an 18th-century capriccio.
  • The tone changes from sepia to lurid. Times, Sunday Times
  • The paintings seem at first to be sombre in tone, coloured mostly by umbers and sepia-like hues.
  • With skin tone colors of apricot, tan, sepia, mahogany, salmon, raw sienna, and burnt sienna, white was used primarily to alter shades and create a layered tint.
  • A manipulator is a manipulator, whether in sepia or sex. Sepia
  • His drawings were primarily in and executed in rich sepia hues.
  • A glamorous adventure-woman, she was pictured in sepia photos wearing all manner of dapper outfits: grinningly flying planes and sailing sloops; giggling atop tall mountains; grimacing in thickest jungle; and jovially smoking pipes while waving swords and spears of all sizes. Unearthly Asylum
  • She didn't completely understand why the sepia still photos looked like they'd been smudged, smeared or painted.
  • [47] The cuttlefish, or octopus (_Sepia octopus_). The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 21 of 55 1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the
  • At the start of a Mass, Turin archbishop Cardinal Severino Poletto welcomed Benedict to join those who have silently prayed before the sepia-toned cloth, "this sacred linen that speaks in an impressive way of the Passion of Christ. Pope visits Turin Shroud, delivers meditation
  • Using shades of sepia and architecture from the early to mid-20th century in his panels, and an aura ethereality, Kubert suggests that the story being told is a memory, but it's not quite like any story of Batman we have seen before. Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?
  • * You can make your images look like early photographs with the option "Sepia effect" and like a relief with "emboss" and "embossmore". KDE-Apps.org Content
  • In the history of ink, which is rapidly coming to an end, the ancient world turns from the use of India ink to adopt sepia.
  • Of those swimming creatures that appear to have feet, as is the case with the molluscs, these creatures swim by the aid of their feet and their fins as well, and they swim most rapidly backwards in the direction of the trunk, as is the case with the cuttle-fish or sepia and the calamary; and, by the way, neither of these latter can walk as the poulpe or octopus can. The History of Animals
  • A tinny piano plays a bouncy ragtime tune over faded sepia photos, unwittingly romanticizing an era now long past.
  • ..purportedly, footage was shot in a barn "raised in one day", like that alone is believable, in the pennsylvania countryside on an old 'daguerreotype' camera & the sepia toned fotos were hand colored & then spliced into an action sequence, showing a allegedly fake 'take off & landing'... This Just in: I Break for Holidays!
  • Not at all sepia but still in keeping with the gallery's saturnine tendencies are the mixed-medium reliefs of Einar and Jamex de la Torre, brothers whose work is often inspired by vernacular Latino culture.
  • Each shows the head and shoulders of young woman in tones of pinky sepia on the left, partnered by a fragment of landscape on the right.
  • It looked good, in sepia way, and the landscape was mutedly impressive, like the acting. Times, Sunday Times
  • Back, from the point of the tail to the point of the nose, dark sepia brown; under the head yellow; and towards the middle of the belly orange; scales minute; scuta 140; tongue forked; teeth very minute; no fangs observable. Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1
  • I had lunch on the verandah of the Hacienda Mamacona horse ranch outside the city and watched Peru's top horsemen put sepia thoroughbreds through their paces.
  • Well yes, compared to the drab fifties and khaki they probably were, but today their colours seem to be seen through a sepia veneer, and, sugar, that doesn't do it for me.
  • All photos hence, are welcome and can be achieved, be they striated, torn, sepia or whatever.
  • Their life together would be real, crude and perhaps painful: hard-edged reality instead of a sepia tinted world as the credits rolled. JUST BETWEEN US
  • Common remedies for facial pigmentation include sulfur, lycopodium clavatum, sepia officinalis, thuja occidentalis, argenticum nitricum, cadmium sulphuratum, copaiva officinalis, guarana, caulophyllum thalictroides and plumbum metallicum. EHow - Health How To's
  • Sepia comes from the Greek word for the rich reddish-brown pigment obtained from a fluid that is secreted by the cuttlefish from their ink sac.
  • Through the whole of the present exhibition, the changing shades of sepia, their delicacy and texture, create an impression of a sadness deep as a wound.
  • Portrait in Sepia , 2002, a family saga set in Chile in the late 19 th century.
  • Any of various squidlike cephalopod marine mollusks of the genus Sepia that have ten arms and a calcareous internal shell and eject a dark, inky fluid when in danger.
  • Conté sticks and pencils are available in a wide range of colours including the traditional black, white, sepia, bistre and sanguine.
  • It's shot in a clunky retro-futurist style, and the director declares himself influenced by Fritz Lang, filling his screen with eerie, gigantic hardware shot in mouldy, decaying, soft-focus sepia.
  • In sharp contrast - and contrasts define the album - marimba, piano and maracas set up a sepia-tone backdrop for track two, ‘The Nurse’.
  • Far better to peer into the sepia photographs and imagine. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sepia toned heliogravures are offered by dealers at between $75.00 and $375.00 depending on size, condition and image.
  • The monochromatic variations on sepia keep the actors and their adventures at a refined aesthetic distance.
  • My aunts seemed very far away, faded, sepia photographs stuck in some childhood album.
  • She plays with the medium, placing a cutout aquatinted image in sepia of herself unravelling lino engraved lines of an Eastern Cape landscape.
  • The glamourisation is helped by gorgeous cinematography, which has the hyperreal sepia glow of a Norwich Union advert.
  • Old sepia photographs of the new arrivals, dressed proudly in suits, ties and bowler hats soon gave way to faded images of a population transformed into farmers, builders and engineers.
  • Each of these mysterious projections varies slightly in color: one has a greenish tint, another looks silvery, another is almost sepia.
  • · Add effects such as grayscale, negative, old picture effect, auto equalize, sepia and so on. Softpedia - Windows - All
  • The period detail has been painstakingly recreated and it is shot in a sombre palette of olive greens and sepia tones.
  • She also makes great use of sepia, a colour she has discovered recently. Improve Your Landscape Painting
  • It loomed large and sepia in old photographs. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
  • Later technology allowed for ink shades of red, green, sepia, black, and mulberry.
  • The resulting silver, black, white and sepia images are multilayered palimpsests whose billowing blobs of form hover, sometimes uncomfortably, within the pictorial arena.
  • Frequently, they paused to rest in the shade of high pines along sepia streamlets where there was fresh water to drink.
  • His lovely period costumes, mainly in shades of beige, gave the production the look of an old sepia photograph.
  • The young are produced in the same way also by the cephalopoda, e.g. sepias and the like, and by the crustacea, e.g. carabi and their kindred, for these also lay eggs in consequence of copulation, and the male has often been seen uniting with the female. On the Generation of Animals
  • Conté sticks and pencils are available in a wide range of colours including the traditional black, white, sepia, bistre and sanguine.
  • It's a lush but creepy film, shot not in black-and-white but muted sepia tones that lend it an eerily timeless quality normally associated with old, brittle, yellow snapshots curled at the corners.
  • I read the book, written in 1909, at a small New Hampshire girls 'camp ” run by an elderly Congregationalist minister and his wife and itself past its prime ” curled up on a worn velvet sofa in an outbuilding called the Lodge, whose walls were hung with Indian blankets and sepia photographs of girls in togas doing eurythmic dances in a forest clearing. Catacomb Efreet
  • White linens and glowy sepia tones are contradicted only by a huge, overbright mural of a steep Italian coast.
  • He saw her falter under his stare, those veiled dark eyes showing bouts of undecideness and mistrust, the sepia battlegrounds of conflicting desires.
  • Of molluscs the sepia is the most cunning, and is the only species that employs its dark liquid for the sake of concealment as well as from fear: the octopus and calamary make the discharge solely from fear. The History of Animals
  • Despite the inadequate lightfastness and typically dull color appearance of these outmoded historical pigments, the names rose madder, brown madder, carmine, Indian yellow, gamboge, sap green, indigo, van dyke brown and sepia are still frequently used as marketing monnikers for watercolors made with completely unrelated and typically much more lightfast synthetic organic pigments.
  • The eggs of the sepia look like big black myrtle-berries, and they are linked all together like a bunch of grapes, clustered round a centre, and are not easily sundered from one another: for the male exudes over them some moist glairy stuff, which constitutes the sticky gum. The History of Animals
  • On the front was a sepia-toned photo of Jennings, his band, and a battered posse of cronies gathered around a bar.
  • The face in the sepia photograph is taut and strained, the glare fixed and defiant – for who knows the trials Mary Morrison had already undergone in life before her conviction at Manchester assize courts on 16 July 1883? Records of Victorian women murderers and thieves placed online
  • Special effects like mosaic and sepia can be applied in-camera, while a 4x digital zoom magnifies your subject.
  • A bust of Wagner stood in the corner, and on the wall behind the pianoforte was a large painting in sepia, dim, with strong lights and shadows. The Black Cross
  • Some remedies that frequently come up include lycopodium, arsenicum, sepia, and apis, but these are usually taken in extremely high potencies and should be professionally prescribed. THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE
  • Prominent among the pictures is an 1854 sepia photograph of Jonathan Pickering, the bewhiskered company founder.
  • The paintings seem at first to be sombre in tone, coloured mostly by umbers and sepia-like hues.
  • Conclusion: The compound sepia capsules can prolong life.
  • In the larger of these, the backgrounds are sepia, white, black, deep yellow, peachy sienna.
  • The sepia tinted tableau is reminiscent of the opening, as a single file of prisoners traipse, gaunt and dirty, into the showers like animals to the slaughter.
  • I tell him about the sepia photograph. Times, Sunday Times

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