Word: shimmeringly
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...cameras pored over the choice beauties of Venice, Verona, Siena, and several smaller cities of the golden age. What they recorded is a living image-the curious mingling of the radiant with the sinister, the earthy beauty like a kind of exquisite filth, the spirit itself almost like a shimmer of lust-of the High Renaissance...
...greys and greens of sand dune, marsh and meadow blend imperceptibly with the pale blues of the sky's rim, along an endlessly level horizon. Ornate old cities, which have known and outgrown greatness, nurse their memories amid a neat patchwork of fields where golden wheat and rye shimmer at each passing breeze. Turning idly in the same soft breeze, the sails of windmills urge the sluggish water along a network of canals which are the province's vital arteries, moving its traffic, draining and feeding its rich black soil...
Brief Visions. Besides these features, which have been photographed, the surface of Mars has a wealth of detail that has never been captured on a photographic plate. Motions of the earth's atmosphere make the disk jiggle and shimmer, and photographs, long exposed, show nothing but vague mottling. But when a trained observer looks at Mars through a telescope, his eye (which is "faster" than a photographic emulsion) stops the motion of the disk for brief instants at rare intervals. During these enchanted moments, Mars looks like a map covered with lines and dots and patches. The vision vanishes...
...Vries, soloist; Frankenland State Symphony conducted by Erich Kloss; Lyrichord). Debussy had little taste for this commission, wondered vaguely during the eight years he was at it whether the saxophone "indulges in romantic tenderness, like the clarinet." It never does, here, but there is a portion with typical Debussian shimmer, and the performance is elegant...
...soft glow, the dead-black background of the murals seems to recede. Saturn with its rings stands out almost in three dimensions, clear and cold and quiet. The waving streamers of the aurora shimmer in a delicate pastel curtain. Flamelike solar prominences erupt from the surface of the sun with more clarity than in the original coronagraph pictures. Nothing seems to stand still: the murals vibrate with energy...