Word: grayish
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...stark place here at Fra Mauro," he said. Then, as his image flickered onto millions of TV screens back on earth, the 47-year-old Navy captain took the last two steps down the ladder of Antares, the lunar lander. Finally his heavy boots scuffed the soft, grayish-brown dust of the moon's ancient highlands. "It's been a long way," said Shepard, the first and oldest American ever to journey into space. "But we're here...
...critical mass of the human brain is the cortex, a wrinkled grayish pink covering. It is the seat of such processes as thinking, judgment, speech and that tricky blessing, memory. According to D.S. Halacy Jr., an experienced popularizer of science, if the cortex were ironed flat, it would approximate the size of a newspaper page. Whether regular or tabloid size remains anybody's guess. But then, as Halacy makes totally clear, all the really important things about the brain are mysterious...
...time, on an outing in the Swiss Alps.) In such circumstances, nature does not offer Gerald the salvation it provided Birken; the landscape into which Gerald wanders is barren and frigid. He collapses, curls up like a tiny fetus dwarfed by a field of grayish white, his darker footsteps trailing offscreen like an endless umbilical cord. The actual physical setting of Gerald's death is overshadowed by its implications of loneliness and sterility. Compared to the cluttered literalness of most of the film, these few, tentative steps toward approaching a sparser, more abstract method of story-telling are much more...
This self-consciousness is usually of an assured, quiet, sort. They define the Radcliffe years as an arrow pointing toward them, with everything else fading into a grayish blur. What do they like best here? The privacy, the independence, the challenge, or some particular experience of the past, they answer softly...
...Dutchman who sat for Haals. In the language of the old screen comedians, his imitations produce the boffo--the laugh that kills. He usually delivers the lines sitting down, leaning forward over the table or desk. He moves corner of his lip up toward his ear, smooths the thinning grayish hair from the high forehead and takes the student's part...