Word: moonlit
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...Beatles' LP could be all dull, however. Get Back is topnotch. For You Blue is a small gem featuring a moonlit slide guitar that twangs all the way from Nashville to Waikiki. Underlying the basically nostalgic thrust of the album is an authentic piece of oldtime rock 'n' roll, One After 909, which Lennon and McCartney wrote together back...
...little wetness in the form of three mornings' blessed dew descended in answer to fervent prayers and several moonlit ceremonies of great duration. The more hopefully-disposed members of the Tribe perked up, but their wise men, Alyosha and the others, and their horticulturists, remained wary. If the wind began too soon now, they said, a worse catastrophe yet would befall them and squaws awoke in the night at the slightest rustling of mice or whatever it was that made the sound like wind outside their teepees...
...Scots destroyed Rommell's army in North Africa during World War Two in a sneak attack at night. Bagpipers were lined up as far as one could see in either direction across the moonlit desert. And suddenly, on signal, they began playing, marching out across the sand in their kilts to the sound of ferocious black drums and wailing bagpipes, which, it is said terrified the Germans, who had never heard that sound before...
...mesmerically drawn to each other and just as galvanically repulsed by each other. Just as F. Scott Fitzgerald threw iridescent parties in his novels, Coward has saturated his plays with the ambience of sophistication. One always seems to be slumming upwards at a Coward play, forever lingering on a moonlit terrace, and peeking into bedrooms that are more like ballrooms. The characters always seem to be in evening dress even when they aren't. They appear to be dancing even when crossing the room just to pour a drink...
...Tanner developed a special technique of applying his paint in thin, linseed-oil glazes. He began employing a gemlike palette heavily laced with blues and aquamarines. Many of the works done in this later style have cracked and flaked. But some few among them-notably the serenely moonlit Abraham's Oak -still show how Tanner could take a simple Biblical tale and use it to inspire a unique poetic vision...