Word: hoarfrost
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...remote from both son and husband. To Bergman his parents were "sealed in iron caskets." This boyhood gave him the permeating motifs for his work: "God and the Devil, Life and Death, the drama of the couple and the tragic solitude of beings." In Winter Light, the hoarfrost of allegory gleams more icily than ever before...
...fact, some of Manhattan's speculative builders have plainly overreached themselves. Though buildings with names like Something East or Something Tower or Something House continue to push up like hoarfrost, and ask staggering prices (one recently built co-op on Fifth Avenue wants $129,940 for a seven-room apartment, and $18,576 a year maintenance), some of the tinder-traps-on-Hudson are finding it hard to land customers. Apartment seekers frequently are offered half a year's rent free as a lure. The older, more substantial buildings with high ceilings, soundproof walls, and proper entrance halls...
...homosexual, and rouged and powdered his cheeks. One room of his house was decorated as a snow scene, with a polar bear rug. a sleigh, and mica hoarfrost. He sometimes wore a white velvet suit and a bunch of violets in the neck of his shirt instead of a cravat. But he did have cravats. 100 of them in "tender pastel shades" that hung in a glass cupboard in his bathroom...
Water & Greenery. Last week, Kuiper focused his spectrometer on the gleaming icecap, dwindling fast in the Martian May. It turned out to be "water in the solid state" (ice, snow or hoarfrost). If it had been solid carbon dioxide (dry ice), it would have shown an entirely different spectrum...
Frosty Shrouds. Heavy hoarfrost formed each night; the dead did not stink. They froze hard as stone and in the morning they were wrapped in eerie shrouds of frost...