filmy
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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
Over and over, in soft-edged blocks layered on filmy backgrounds, he modeled a commitment to abstraction that charged at the hardest questions of life and art through refusal of the easy path.
From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2023
This filmy mosaic selectively permits charged lithium ions to cross during discharge and controls movement of electrons that supply the battery's power.
From Science Daily • Sep. 28, 2023
Mona looked at her out of her one good eye—it was startlingly blue compared to the filmy white covering the other—and said, “I am a greenwitch.”
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
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