Word: shimmeringly
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...Shimmering Dust. The major theater of war is the broad Punjab plain, which stretches flat from horizon to horizon. It is lushly green, dotted with clumps of trees, laced by canals. The days are swelteringly hot, and dust clouds shimmer in the glaring sun. It is Rudyard Kipling country, immortalized in such books as Kim and Indian Tales. And the soldiers on both sides are very like the men Kipling so deeply revered. The officers are British-trained, and many are graduates of Sandhurst. They have the British manner, right down to clipped accents, mustaches and swagger sticks. The enlisted...
...little studied-especially in his leads, which have a tendency to come on like a psychedelic one-man band. The beginning of his piece on Las Vegas, for example, consists of the word "hernia" repeated no fewer than 57 times. And if the 25 pages that follow jump and shimmer at times in their observations and their writing, they also suffer from prose that has a tendency to clot and baroque scrollwork similes that have a familiar look...
...UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG. All the soulful clichés of young love shimmer with freshness and style in this splashy, sparkling French musical by Director Jacques Demy...
Another optical effect often exploited by op is the moiré pattern, familiar in the shimmer of watered silk fabrics. Fundamentally, these flashes of apparent reflection are created whenever two or more grids of parallel or periodic rulings-window screens, for example-are overlapped. When misaligned slightly, they produce ripples and curves not actually inherent in the grids. The smallest angle of change yields the greatest, most disturbed pattern displacements...
Abstract as an apple, its tensile curves suggest nothing but nature as they wind around its 21-ft. height-an ideal counter to the squared shimmer of the Secretariat Building's facade. Symbolically, the bold bronze seems a play on the Swedish diplomat's name-a hammered shield. Inside the pierced circle of the design, Sculptress Hepworth has inscribed: "To the glory of God and the memory of Dag Hammarskjold...