purple haze
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“When the sun started to set, I swear to you, it was like a purple haze over the stadium,” recalled Bailey, then UW’s senior cornerback who snared an interception in the second quarter.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2022
"It wasn't very visible to the eye, only a very slight purple haze above the horizon but obviously the camera can pick up so much more," he said.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2021
Peters has left quarterbacks in a purple haze, returning two interceptions for touchdowns in four games, a 67-yarder against the Seahawks and one for 89 yards against Cincinnati.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2019
The finely detailed views of the galaxies, most of them yellow, are in visible and near-infrared light from the Hubble Space Telescope, while the diffuse purple haze shows X-rays as seen by Chandra X-ray Observatory.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
Just as the sun was sinking like a great blood orange through a purple haze that lay along the western horizon, James laughingly handed the guitar to the boy who had carried it.
From The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn by Gordon Stables
