(superl.) Accompained with mist; characterized by the presence of mist; obscured by, or overspread with, mist; as, misty weather; misty mountains; a misty atmosphere.
(superl.) Obscured as if by mist; dim; obscure; clouded; as, misty sight.
Example Sentences:
(1) Many of Long’s pieces are fragile and fleeting: a stripe of un-mown grass in an otherwise close cropped lawn at the Henry Moore foundation , a misty circle in Scotland that lasted only until the day warmed up, a stripe of green grass left by plucking daisies, or paintings in wet mud that dry out and crumble.
(2) It introduces a welcome trenchancy into subjects often shrouded in misty rhetoric.
(3) It is the England that then prime minister John Major vowed would never vanish in a famous 1993 speech: “Long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and – as George Orwell said – ‘old maids bicycling to holy communion through the morning mist’.” Major was mining Orwell’s wartime essay The Lion and the Unicorn, whose tone was one of reassurance – the national culture will survive, despite everything: “The gentleness, the hypocrisy, the thoughtlessness, the reverence for law and the hatred of uniforms will remain, along with the suet puddings and the misty skies.” Orwell and Major were both asserting the strength of a national culture at times when Britishness – for both men basically Englishness – was felt to be under threat from outside dangers (war, integration into Europe).
(4) The Boston Herald , a local tabloid that spilled oceans of ink denouncing him in life, remembered him with uncharacteristic mistiness.
(5) The implant surfaces evaluated were Silastic II, Siltex, MISTI, Biocell, Silastic MSI, and Même.
(6) I’m sure there will be a few people that will be a misty-eyed about it leaving service, in the same way as Concorde: they are one plane that you can always recognise.” But, Holland-Kaye says, the difference in noise between the 747 and a new plane such as the A350, which comes into service this year, is stark: “It’s far quieter – less of a screeching noise and that’s really welcome for local communities.
(7) I'd like to say I tasted them first on some misty Irish moorland, or was fed them by grizzled crofters in the Scottish highlands (where they are known as tattie scones).
(8) October 24, 2013 Daniel Robinson (@SalmonLeap2) @lengeldavid Third-generation @RedSox supporter getting misty eyed seeing Fenway Dublin.
(9) Note that vast landscape behind them: it depicts among misty mountains the epic wall begun by the first emperor of China more than 2,000 years ago .
(10) That same year, Eastwood directed his first film, Play Misty for Me.
(11) The adrenal function in diabetes mutant mice with misty coat colour (dbm) was investigated by measurements of serum corticosteroids, adrenal weights and adrenal corticosteroid content.
(12) Purified cultures of pancreatic islet cells 4--7 day old postnatal "misty diabetic" mice and normal siblings were established and then maintained in Eagle's minimal essential medium without serum.
(13) KC look ready to lay siege - but they need to be careful not to be caught on the break... 2.11am GMT 1 min It's very misty inside the Cauldron, but that's a result of a lot of pre-game pyrotechnics.
(14) Funny how they never get all misty-eyed and nostalgic for the low-profile, skint men they've known.
(15) The hotel’s Taberna bar is a popular post-work meeting spot, both for the quality of its tapas and the refreshing misty spray puffed over the outdoor seating area in summer.
(16) "At one point the ball was hoofed up the pitch and over the goal," recalls a misty-eyed Paul.
(17) There are seven black women gracing fall magazine covers: Willow Smith, Beyoncé, Kerry Washington, Ciara, Serena Williams, Misty Copeland and Amandla Stenberg.
(18) Behind that wan painting of misty mountains, millions of lives long for self-expression.
(19) My Facebook feed is filled with my friends’ pictures of crabs with no eyes, shrimp and crawfish with one eye or things missing,” Misty Fisher, 24, said.
(20) Throughout the last stretch of the journey, in a minibus driving along winding roads through the misty Welsh landscape, I am in full prodigal-son mode, returning to the land of my fathers, or at least my mother's fathers.
Mitty
Definition:
(n.) The stormy petrel.
Example Sentences:
(1) But police described him as a "Walter Mitty character", a "Del Boy" who had eye-watering debts when arrested – he owed £8,000 in electricity bills alone.
(2) This time, however, the party has been made to look so absurd that even Farage has said he needs to professionalise his fledgling force and drive out the "Walter Mitty" characters damaging their reputation.
(3) It comes as Farage tries to rid the party of "Walter Mitty" types after a stream of controversies.
(4) Mitty may be in his own little world, but he is not so disconnected from reality as to suggest a series of floods might be God's punishment for a change in the law allowing same-sex marriage.
(5) The letter's publication comes the day after Farage announced that he wanted to rid the party of "Walter Mitty" types and create a "disciplined election machine".
(6) Not to the rogue Ukip officials and activists Farage was referring to, who have embarrassed the party with their off-message opinions – but to Walter Mitty.
(7) Nigel Farage says he wants to rid Ukip of its Walter Mitty figures .
(8) You would not have caught Mitty mocking a disabled student, asking him whether he was Richard III, as the MEP and Ukip member Godfrey Bloom did at the Oxford Union last week.
(9) James Bond, Star Trek , Batman , Star Wars , Fast and Furious , Thor and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty have all made use of Iceland’s stunning scenery, and the 20% expenses refund from the state.
(10) Farage's effort to rid the party of "Walter Mitty" types comes after a stream of controversies, including the party's suspension of a councillor for blaming flooding on gay marriage and the ejection of MEP Godfrey Bloom following comments about women and sending foreign aid to "bongo-bongo land".
(11) O'Hagan portrays Assange as a Walter Mitty-like fantasist whose absorption with grand and unrealisable schemes prevents him from ever achieving anything practical.
(12) A Walter Mitty character with a bootlegging past in the US, Gavin Welby became the main figure in his son's life, especially after his divorce in 1959, when the boy was three.
(13) Ukip is yet to comment on Batten's remarks, which come after an effort by Farage to rid the party of "Walter Mitty" types .
(14) It is also unlikely that Fox would have allowed "a Walter Mitty figure" to sit alongside him when he sat down for a social dinner with commander designate for Nato in Afghanistan at a Steakhouse in Tampa Florida.David Cameron said at prime minister's questions that he was waiting for the O'Donnell inquiry before deciding whether to sack Fox.
(15) So Farage is letting himself off too lightly when he announces that Ukip will now get a tighter grip on its candidate selection to keep out the Mittys.
(16) Among them were The Business Background of MPs (seven editions, 1959-80), Enoch Powell, Tory Tribune (1970), Lord On the Board (1972) and Sir Harold Wilson: Yorkshire Walter Mitty (1977).
(17) One friend said he was “eccentric to the extreme” and “bit of a Walter Mitty”, obsessed by palm-reading and known to sleep in his mum’s dressing gown and a fez.
(18) Nigel Farage's admission that Ukip has more than its fair share of Walter Mittys might look like the very latest in candour from the man who styles himself as a straight-talker, but it is in fact an insult.
(19) Walter Mitty's inner Walter Mitty is never rattled, however tight the corner; his peers marvel at his dauntless courage and are left breathless by the almost superhuman range of talents that real life never allows him to demonstrate.
(20) Police sources describe him as a "Walter Mitty character", a "Del Boy" who had eye-watering debts when he was arrested ‑ he owed £8,000 in electricity bills alone.