filmy
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Eventually her costume provides those around her with filmy plumes, to no pointed effect.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
The only ones I tend to avoid are neutral vegetable oil, which can make the whole thing feel a little filmy, and coconut oil, unless that is a flavor you specifically want to chase.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
Smoke lent artificial darkness and a filmy quality to the light in areas far from the conflagration.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2025
Retired high court judge Anjana Prakash told HW news that his comment was “dramatic, filmy and laughable and it had brought down the level of judiciary”.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2024
It was sort of crunchy, because the sugar didn’t dissolve, and it was greasy and left a filmy coat in my mouth.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
The lower sleeves are golden, a line of white at the wrist, and a filmier one within the bodice.
From Holbein by Beatrice Fortescue
Our normal waking consciousness is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her rose maids of honor, in filmiest laces, Loitered and lingered in shy woodland places; And white-vested lilies were ever at prayer; Their vespers, the perfume that sweetened the air.
From Rosemary and Rue by Amber
From the depths of her theatre trunks she produced a bewildering assortment of laces, chiffon, silks, and the filmiest of gauzes.
From West Wind Drift by George Barr McCutcheon
A white lace overdress of filmiest texture fell over the velvet, almost touching the wreath of lilies, and looked as though it was made of sea foam.
From Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch by Mary E. Bradley Lane
But this is the way of Love; its filmiest threads easily spin themselves further; and a man once entangled is bound by that unseen chain which links the soul to its destiny.
From The Maid of Maiden Lane by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
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