Word: greenish
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Today her windows glitter in churches all over the British Isles, and she has turned out everything from a somber, Rouaultish window for a Dublin Roman Catholic military chapel, to a greenish-gold abstract for the Irish Pavilion at the New York World's Fair. A Catholic in a Protestant family, she lives alone, ventures out seldom. "I have to save what energy I have for my work," she explains. Her one extravagance is Paris ("My excuse is to buy glass"), and twice a year she can be seen rambling around Montparnasse, a tiny figure in mannish tweeds puffing...
...latest portents of physics. He sets out, as Defoe did, to make the reader's imagination whirl with mingled curiosity and alarm; but where Defoe found novelty in a human footstep, the science-fictioneer stakes everything on such inhuman images as "a six-foot egg made of greenish gelatin" or "nine feet of slimy green trunk tapering ... to a pointed top." Where Defoe laid down his ideas in a prose as plain as his images, his successor revels in portentous complexity, e.g., "Remembrance occurs when, at all the synapses in a given network 'y,' the permanently echoing...
...Ghent's Cathedral of St. Bavon, looked better than it had for centuries. Long-obscured flowers sprouted from the grass, the grey clouds that once hovered about the holy dove had become a rain-bow-hued nimbus, and a lovingly detailed background landscape emerged clearly from the greenish-brown mist of generations. Everywhere, colors brightened to the rich blues, yellows and reds the Van Eycks had originally painted...
...picture that came over was indubitably in color, but who was colored what was always difficult to tell. The screen seemed to take on a hue corresponding to whatever color was predominant in the picture, and so for most of the time all the players had a greenish tings because of the Michie Stadium turf. In closeups, however, the colors did not run together but appeared almost unnaturally brilliant...
...later: "It was dark, but I had a feeling that I saw something in the corner. I put out my hand and felt something-I began to tremble." At Claudio's cries of "I see it! I see it!" the others rushed over to find him holding the greenish-black stone statuette of Our Lady of the Angels...