Word: greenishly
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...instrument of death. The fact that the action remains largely unseen and the physical effect plays out in our minds only underscores revulsion. However, in most other instances, the brothers resort to heavy-handed imagery. Precariously controlled horses foaming at the mouth and riders driving a carriage bathed in greenish light only detract from prior subtlety. The pathetic fallacy of a blood-red sky looming over London is more lamentable for its clumsy, blatant symbolism than truly revealing...
...humiliation developing like a Polaroid - I reeled in a good-sized rock. Or rather, the great mossy rock, resting calmly in the shallow, greenish water off the point, had reeled me in. The rock had me mounted on its wall. I was the rock's trophy, for a moment...
When Sean Day hears the wail of a saxophone, he sees a writhing mass of neon-purple snakes hovering in the air. The hum of a harmonica, on the other hand, has a pleasantly greenish hue, while plunking pianos evoke a fine blue mist. Eating is colorful too. When Day takes a spoonful of mango sorbet, the wall before him turns lime green, rippled with cherry-red stripes...
Finally, Schatten and his team were ready to try a DNA transfer (see diagram). This first effort was meant only to test the technique, so they decided to use a gene that occurs naturally in jellyfish, where it directs the production of a harmless protein that glows with a greenish light under the right illumination. Mice, rabbits and other creatures who have had the same gene inserted actually do shine dimly; while ANDi (his name is a backward acronym for "inserted DNA") does not, the scientists have detected traces of the gene in his muscle, hair, cheek and blood cells...
...Lesser lunchboxes might have been done in, or at the very least intimidated by such an experience. Not mine. Hours after my mom had peeled the greenish remains of my peanut-butter and honey sandwich from its metal bottom, my lunchbox was clean as a whistle, ready for action once again...