Word: mists
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...idea is don't attack America, wear it down gradually . . . and did you know? It's working." Finally, over a chorus of Onward, Christian Soldiers and America, the narrator proclaims fervently: "Democracy is held together by Fourth-of-July flag-waving patriotism ... if you feel a little mist in your eye, then thank God for you, Mister. You're still an American...
...Look!" their lusty mother cried a hundred times a day, "Look!" Colette looked, and her descriptions of the farm include some of the loveliest pages in the literature of childhood. "Even then, when I was only five, I so loved the dawn that I would go alone through the mist in search of strawberries, black currants and hairy gooseberries, my blue eyes deepened by the blurred and dewy greenery all around me, my pride swelling at being awake while all the other children were asleep. At that hour I first became aware of my own self and, in an inexpressible...
...Johanne meets him, moves in with him, gets pregnant by him, narrowly averts "a $200 operation" before he goes away and leaves her. Though intrinsically commonplace, their affair is cinematically modish, caught by cameramen who appear to shoot from the hip, doting on closeups, picking up lots of outdoor mist and indoor cigarette smoke at unexpected angles...
...choice of words, the dislocated syntax, the archaisms like "trapt" or the frequent use of accents--all show a taste for the bitter, explosive, tactile qualities of words that few poets demonstrate in greater intensity than Dylan Thomas. Occasionally the language slides off into bluster, or mist...
...unrecognizable "blots." Constable, also experimenting in colored light, labeled Turner's work "tinted steam." It was a shrewd perception for, in the days of the burgeoning Industrial Revolution, Turner eventually abandoned trite old themes to depict railway trains and steamships roiling, almost defiantly and often indistinctly, through mist and fog. When he titled a painting Sunrise with a Boat Between Headlands, the subject was neither topography nor the boat, which is a barely visible blob, but light refracted by mist...