(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.
Sheer
Definition:
(v. i.) Bright; clear; pure; unmixed.
(v. i.) Very thin or transparent; -- applied to fabrics; as, sheer muslin.
(v. i.) Being only what it seems to be; obvious; simple; mere; downright; as, sheer folly; sheer nonsense.
(v. i.) Stright up and down; vertical; prpendicular.
(adv.) Clean; quite; at once.
(v. t.) To shear.
(v. i.) To decline or deviate from the line of the proper course; to turn aside; to swerve; as, a ship sheers from her course; a horse sheers at a bicycle.
(n.) The longitudinal upward curvature of the deck, gunwale, and lines of a vessel, as when viewed from the side.
(n.) The position of a vessel riding at single anchor and swinging clear of it.
(n.) A turn or change in a course.
(n.) Shears See Shear.
Example Sentences:
(1) Problems associated with school-based clinics include vehement opposition to sex education, financing, and the sheer magnitude of the adolescents' health needs.
(2) They argue that the US, the world's largest producer of greenhouse gases per capita (China recently surpassed us in sheer volume), needs to lead the fight to limit carbon emissions, rather continuing to block global treaties as it has done in the past.
(3) But with the advantages and attractions that Scotland already has, and, more importantly, taking into account the morale boost, the sheer energisation of a whole people that would come about because we would finally have our destiny at least largely back in our own hands again – I think we could do it.
(4) Obviously, the sheer number of lasers being used both clinically and experimentally indicates a great potential for further advancement and refinement in technique and surgical outcomes.
(5) I was amazed by the sheer scale of the operation, easily mistaken for a full military assault on a kraken.
(6) We can inhabit only one version of being human – the only version that survives today – but what is fascinating is that palaeoanthropology shows us those other paths to becoming human, their successes and their eventual demise, whether through failure or just sheer bad luck.
(7) The report, extracts of which were published by the investigative news website Exaro , is said to include “devastating detail” of the corporation’s “sheer scale of awareness” of the late star’s activities.
(8) There is a policy review process, a manifesto and the small matter of winning another election between here and catastrophe, but the sheer barbarism of the outlined idea is breathtaking.
(9) Back in the 1970s, a severe economic crisis revealed the sheer unsustainability of government policies.
(10) So we started asking them ridiculous questions about being single," says Lucas, "and the sheer number of misunderstandings about each other's lives felt like comedic material."
(11) He skirted round the issue of historic responsibility for the misery but referred to the sheer scale of the sacrifice, pointing out that, among more than 14,000 parishes in the whole of England and Wales, only about 50 so-called "thankful parishes" saw all their soldiers return.
(12) But all that has changed since I discovered the sheer joy of hunting down items with “reduced” stickers at my local Waitrose.
(13) TUC general secretary Brendan Barber welcomed the letters, which argue against the Conservative party's position that the sheer scale of the UK deficit means public spending must be cut immediately.
(14) This year though, the annual fest of tit tape, weepy self-congratulation and sheer star power will be remembered for more than a frock faux pas: there was a serious cock-up .
(15) Brown, from Sheerness in Kent, who was to earn £15,000 a year from the role, has apologised for causing offence with the messages she posted between the ages of 14 and 16.
(16) I hope that people feel inspired enough, maybe in the sheer face of loss, to just do what they should be doing in life.
(17) David Winnick, the MP for Walsall North, said: "None of [May's] excuses can explain away the sheer incompetence and shambles that have occurred on her watch."
(18) Through combination with a spherical disc face perpendicular to the axis of rotation, which protrudes only slightly from the hemispherical catheter tip, with a maximum at the center and minimum at the lateral borders, the lathing head has only a slight risk of perforation and no undesired sheering forces (Figures 2a to 2d).
(19) Redwoods are taller, but giant sequoias win for sheer mass: the General Sherman's trunk has a volume of 1,487 cubic metres and is estimated to weigh over 2,000 tonnes.
(20) "Some of you may have heard we have a new judge this year," said Forsyth, summoning his finest brow-raise and hauling the audience at least temporarily on side by sheer force of showbiz will.