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The savior of the world appears in this painting as a soft, spumy cipher.

The ridges had become walls, with great frothing crests and sides that were smeared with spumy lines.

The critic Dilys Powell thought it "great and experimental", adding that "in the shots of the spumy Atlantic ... the pale dawn breaking or the midday brilliance ... there was something as yet unknown in cinema narrative".

Rain poured over the street-lamps in gauzy, iridescent ribbons; it wove spumy lace upon the black roadway and trailed, fuming, into the gutters.

A spumy trail of nocturnal loiterers clung to their wake.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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