texture

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The challenge is how to live with virtue and technology when technology tends to erode virtue and place and human texture.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

The way light is emitted at different angles depends on surface texture, which can reveal whether the surface is smooth rock or rough, powdery material.

From Science Daily • May 5, 2026

Brody couldn’t ask for a better scene partner than Thompson, an accomplished theater actor who gives haunting texture to a character unique in both her imperfections and seductive appeal.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026

A milk-based dessert similar in appearance to a blancmange, the pudding uses carrageen moss – a type of seaweed found in coastal areas – to give it a gelatinous texture.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

The only thing that Fernanda noted in the man whom a few months later she was to expel from the house without remembering where she had seen him was the bilious texture of his skin.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez