Word: flickered
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Appreciate the coloristic luster of the blue against the white. Stare at your fellow aesthetes through the magical icy wall. See how they waver and flicker and are gone. Appreciate the mystical unity you are achieving with the ice, the way your feet appear to have frozen to the ground...
...batteries, a microprocessor tells the doll to turn itself off once the child falls asleep and stops squeezing the toy. The bedtime companion comes in two forms -- a baby bear or a baby human -- each with bright eyes that double as a night- light and little electric lips that flicker as it speaks...
...jaded oculii were roaming carelessly, just the other day, through a salt-stained numero of the Daily when they happened to rest on Higginson Snotbottom's numinously scriptatory editorial effusion, "Why Daily Pensters Don't Wear Clothes." I fear they rested but a moment, a soi-disant hermeneutic flicker in my day, since at the time I was on the ship-to-shore phone, advising my good friend Bob Bork on possible mano-a-mano means of unmanning (were this necessary) the mewling catamites of the Left. Simultaneously I was correcting National Review galleys, sipping a very adequate Chateau Lafitte...
...bodies and unify them as objects in the world while threatening always to dissolve them as emblems of personality. The surfaces look as if they came via Philip Guston from Monet, picking up some of Giacomo Balla's futurist dissections of light particles along the way -- a sober flicker in which images flash and are gone like the sides of fish in dark, weedy water...
...feeling of a life sketch that argues a lot of preliminary drawing; and an occasional awkwardness in the relation of figures within a painting suggests that she has been fitting together drawings done on the spot. Over this lies the integument of broken atmosphere, a congealed version of impressionist flicker...