What's the difference between gauziness and gauzy?
Gauziness
Definition:
(n.) The quality of being gauzy; flimsiness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Overlaying the image are a few brusque swipes across the canvas, a gauzy smear of thin white paint, as if something had passed between us and the painting.
(2) A gauzy light filters down through high streaks of cirrus and ranks of towering cumulus look like smoke thrown up over the fells from a giant cannon salvo.
(3) Gauzy images of smiling worshippers embracing at a mosque cut to children passing out sweets to break the Ramadan fast.
(4) The film was commissioned for the charity's 50th anniversary, and it's easy to imagine what they might have been expecting: a gauzy portrait, light on analysis, strong on praise.
(5) Not out of despair and hopelessness, but rather with certainty of Allah’s promise.” At the end, Poulin spoke again, his visage filtered in a gauzy light.
(6) Today, it is one of the most recognizable symbols of the university, the part of campus that those watching Duke basketball are most likely to see in gauzy packages on TV.
(7) Launching her campaign with a very unBloombergian five-borough walking tour and a gauzy YouTube video , shot 1950s-style at the counter of the Moonstruck Diner, the presumptive favorite struck a populist tone.
(8) Yet on Tuesday, the air was a gauzy white, registering as “ very unhealthy ” on the US embassy’s air quality scale – a harsh reminder of the city’s pollution, despite the government’s best efforts to hide it.
(9) There can be few who stop and look at his 1880-81 Little Dancer Aged 14 , the bronze sculpture of the adolescent dancer who wears a gauzy fabric tutu and a satin ribbon tied to the cue of her bronze hair and not feel in the presence of a great and mysterious thing.
(10) Even in the springtime, when the air is far better than in the filthy, choking winters , the haze is visible night and day, shimmering in the headlights of cars and blurring buildings and bridges behind a gauzy grey curtain.
(11) The simple reason is that the distance between the soft, gauzy feel good aura around breast cancer awareness campaigns and actually going through breast cancer is so very great.
(12) But I find when I watch sex scenes in films, it's like ho-hum or it's flapping curtains and gauzy pictures, which is kind of boring.'
(13) The squadron of seven tween (possibly Mean) girls seated directly behind me offered a good barometer of the audience’s emotional temperature – sighing, sniffing, whispering “Oh my God he is sooooo cute!” upon seeing Ansel Elgort and “Even the credits are making me cry!” Facebook Twitter Pinterest There’s nothing like the promise of early death to make 500 handkerchiefs appear all at once, and Fault fits snugly into an ancient Hollywood tradition whereby the loveliest actresses of their eras are asked to die gracefully of mysterious, imprecisely diagnosed ailments that leave no mark on their sufferers bar a gauzy, luminescent haze confected by the cinematographer and his lighting men.
(14) Other indie credentials: How To Dress Well features on her track Can I , and Take Me There, from her latest mixtape Boss Up, is a hazy, gauzy treat that features a Balam Acab sample .
(15) The era was portrayed with a slick, gauzy beauty in Tom Ford's film A Single Man , and the TV drama Mad Men has beamed gorgeous images of the period into our homes for four years now.
(16) They've been described as wafty, wavy, floaty, gauzy, wispy, glittering, sparkly, dreamy (and – for the thesaurus buffs – diaphanous, pellucid).
(17) Disdain for homosexuals is buried beneath the usual gauzy rhetoric about love, respect and justice.
Gauzy
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, gauze; thin and slight as gauze.
Example Sentences:
(1) Overlaying the image are a few brusque swipes across the canvas, a gauzy smear of thin white paint, as if something had passed between us and the painting.
(2) A gauzy light filters down through high streaks of cirrus and ranks of towering cumulus look like smoke thrown up over the fells from a giant cannon salvo.
(3) Gauzy images of smiling worshippers embracing at a mosque cut to children passing out sweets to break the Ramadan fast.
(4) The film was commissioned for the charity's 50th anniversary, and it's easy to imagine what they might have been expecting: a gauzy portrait, light on analysis, strong on praise.
(5) Not out of despair and hopelessness, but rather with certainty of Allah’s promise.” At the end, Poulin spoke again, his visage filtered in a gauzy light.
(6) Today, it is one of the most recognizable symbols of the university, the part of campus that those watching Duke basketball are most likely to see in gauzy packages on TV.
(7) Launching her campaign with a very unBloombergian five-borough walking tour and a gauzy YouTube video , shot 1950s-style at the counter of the Moonstruck Diner, the presumptive favorite struck a populist tone.
(8) Yet on Tuesday, the air was a gauzy white, registering as “ very unhealthy ” on the US embassy’s air quality scale – a harsh reminder of the city’s pollution, despite the government’s best efforts to hide it.
(9) There can be few who stop and look at his 1880-81 Little Dancer Aged 14 , the bronze sculpture of the adolescent dancer who wears a gauzy fabric tutu and a satin ribbon tied to the cue of her bronze hair and not feel in the presence of a great and mysterious thing.
(10) Even in the springtime, when the air is far better than in the filthy, choking winters , the haze is visible night and day, shimmering in the headlights of cars and blurring buildings and bridges behind a gauzy grey curtain.
(11) The simple reason is that the distance between the soft, gauzy feel good aura around breast cancer awareness campaigns and actually going through breast cancer is so very great.
(12) But I find when I watch sex scenes in films, it's like ho-hum or it's flapping curtains and gauzy pictures, which is kind of boring.'
(13) The squadron of seven tween (possibly Mean) girls seated directly behind me offered a good barometer of the audience’s emotional temperature – sighing, sniffing, whispering “Oh my God he is sooooo cute!” upon seeing Ansel Elgort and “Even the credits are making me cry!” Facebook Twitter Pinterest There’s nothing like the promise of early death to make 500 handkerchiefs appear all at once, and Fault fits snugly into an ancient Hollywood tradition whereby the loveliest actresses of their eras are asked to die gracefully of mysterious, imprecisely diagnosed ailments that leave no mark on their sufferers bar a gauzy, luminescent haze confected by the cinematographer and his lighting men.
(14) Other indie credentials: How To Dress Well features on her track Can I , and Take Me There, from her latest mixtape Boss Up, is a hazy, gauzy treat that features a Balam Acab sample .
(15) The era was portrayed with a slick, gauzy beauty in Tom Ford's film A Single Man , and the TV drama Mad Men has beamed gorgeous images of the period into our homes for four years now.
(16) They've been described as wafty, wavy, floaty, gauzy, wispy, glittering, sparkly, dreamy (and – for the thesaurus buffs – diaphanous, pellucid).
(17) Disdain for homosexuals is buried beneath the usual gauzy rhetoric about love, respect and justice.