| 单词 | prismatic |
| 例句 | Each toad held a baton, sparkling with the prismatic light of anti-cheating magic. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Where the sun hit the hair, there was a prismatic effect. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He glows sapphire when he sits over his workbench in the evenings, humming almost inaudibly as he works, the tip of his cigarette gleaming a prismatic blue. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z She took out the kaleidoscope and popped off its colorful prismatic lens. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Only then did Reynie see that the prismatic lens had been concealing a different lens beneath. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Then everyone else on the dance floor also began to shape-shift, melting into prismatic blobs of light. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z She settles for a simple, repeated refrain of “it’s euphoric,” giving that last word a prismatic luminosity. Chloë Tangles With Future, and 8 More New Songs 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z Beneath the prismatic waters of this Red Sea resort on Israel’s southern tip lies a coral reef with hundreds of varieties of neon fish, sharks and stingrays. 52 Places to Go in 2019 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z Returning on Sunday afternoon, cloudy gray filtering through the skylight, they seemed practically colorful, layered veils of purple, green, red, blue, brown: a prismatic black. Review: At Rothko Chapel, a Composer Is Haunted by a Hero 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z Using both Minimalistic repetition and continual change, the music is prismatic, undulating and restless. Best Songs of 2020 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z His sound on a six-stringed classical guitar was crisp but full-spectrum, almost prismatic; on baritone guitar he savored the lower bray of his notes and the deeper chime of his chords. Music Review | Ralph Towner and Paolo Fresu: Ralph Towner and Paolo Fresu Play at Columbia 2010-03-26T20:50:00Z We caught up with Gibney by phone to discuss the film’s prismatic portrait of a brilliant and cruel — at times even ruthless — man, and our endless fascination with him. Filmmaker Alex Gibney on Steve Jobs, storyteller 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z An army of young people swarmed through the darkened rectangles of industrial Brooklyn, orienteering by thudding beats and prismatic light to a former shipbuilding factory. The Man Behind Those Throbbing Warehouse Parties in Brooklyn 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z The resurrections include Bluemner’s 1917 “House and Tree,” which presents in embryo the intensely colored, prismatic forms evident in the remaining eight works in his gallery. Art Review: ‘American Legends: Calder to O’Keeffe’ at Whitney Museum 2012-12-27T22:56:49Z “Afterparties” insists on a prismatic understanding of Cambodian American diaspora through stories that burst with as much compassion as comedy, making us laugh just when we’re on the verge of crying. Review | Anthony Veasna So’s ‘Afterparties’ is a bittersweet testament to the late author’s talents 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z These crystalline objects are fascinating to behold for their prismatic effects and for the tantalizing sense of cosmic import they so sumptuously embody. Review: De Wain Valentine Show at David Zwirner 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z The illusion relies on the prismatic effects of ambient light on the layered plastic, not on pigment or internal illumination. Review | In the galleries: Depicting an energy of constant fluctuation and growth 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z We get prismatic view of the lives of the books, the lives of their authors and the lives of American literature’s varied traditions. ‘Gatsby to Garp,’ a Feast of First Editions at the Morgan 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Hues so bright they are almost garish hum through prismatic washes. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in April 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z Newman covered Fay for the soundtrack of “The Walking Dead,” while the electronic abstractionist Oneohtrix Point Never performed a prismatic interpretation of a somber “Life Is People” tune on tour. Bill Fay Was a Hidden Gem. One Musician Made Finding Him a Mission. 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z Starlings, magpies, jays, crows and goldfinches, although unnamed, are the British birds I see in the "prismatic and metallic" dazzle. Poem of the week: The Coloration of Feathers by Ruth Fainlight 2012-02-13T09:34:36Z One of his earliest memories — “I must’ve only been like 2”— is seeing a large cardboard cutout of the prismatic triangle from “Dark Side of the Moon” at his dad’s station. How Zane Lowe Became Pop’s Unofficial Therapist 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z The prismatic, looping electronic tones hark back to Terry Riley’s 1967 “Rainbow in Curved Air,” but Mr. Perich’s music sounds miniaturized and far more hectic. Playlistjon Pareles: A Symphony on a Chip Packed in a Jewel Box, And Visions of Love 2010-08-29T02:30:00Z A visionary composition on a series of spoken reflections about a literary work — itself full of layered free-association — Gee's intricate, prismatic film might sound as if it must be buried in abstraction. 'Patience (After Sebald)' evolves into its own incredible journey 2012-05-10T20:29:04Z The last stanza opens orchestrally with the varied assonance of "prismatic and metallic tones." Poem of the week: The Coloration of Feathers by Ruth Fainlight 2012-02-13T09:34:36Z A prismatic investigation of the rise and fall of a postwar model worker, densely interweaving fact and fiction, “Man of Marble” was the Polish equivalent of “Citizen Kane.” Remembering Andrzej Wajda, Unflinching Observer of Modern Poland 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z The method is programmatic openness, deep listening, a willingness to be waylaid; the effect, a prismatic picture of history as experienced and understood by individuals in their full amplitude and idiosyncrasy. ‘Eat the Buddha’ Reports From the ‘World Capital of Self-Immolations’ 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z Across 50-plus years, through all of its wild shapes and prismatic iterations, Veloso’s music has routinely refused the notion of despair. Caetano Veloso’s exquisite protest music has always rejected the idea of despair 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z In the aftermath of O’Connor’s death, a number of beautiful tributes have been published considering many different angles of her prismatic legacy. 50 Rappers, 50 Stories: Hear the Remix 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z “Seeing the colors flow in their structured form makes people feel good,” said Brittany Wright, a photographer whose Instagrams of rainbow-color food, from vibrant citrus to prismatic popsicles, have earned her 160,000 followers. This is your food on acid: Why edible rainbows have taken over the Internet 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z This is the fundamental question weighed at his trial, and this book offers prismatic evidence for each view. Review: ‘One of Us,’ by Asne Seierstad, on Anders Breivik’s Rampage in Norway 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Another prismatic series arrays little swatches of colored pencil on fields of metallic silver paint. Art Gallery Shows to See in February 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z The unnamed narrator of Zachary Lazar’s absorbing and prismatic new novel, “Vengeance,” would surely confirm this sentiment. He’s a Lifer at Angola. He’s Black. Was He Falsely Convicted? 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z And her prismatic approach to ethical questions serves her especially well here: Would Wang be heartbroken if her child were “like her”? Is being like Wang so very bad? Exploring Her Own Experience of Psychosis 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z The photographs are displayed in mirrored frames that send prismatic halos floating across the gallery floor. How the Guggenheim Got Its Groove Back 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z Her comment cuts to the heart of this unusual little movie, an amalgam of fiction and nonfiction that deftly lays bare the prismatic possibilities of truth when filtered through the camera’s eye. Review: ‘A Woman Like Me,’ About Grappling With Terminal Illness 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z That they do through Jeff Russo's opening theme, which incorporates notes from the original series' melody with dreamy images of prismatic colored nebulas, jewel-like asteroid belts, and other mesmerizing sights along the Enterprise's cruising path. Salon's picks for the best TV title sequences of 2022 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z Msangi shows how each character changes over the course of the story, and her prismatic approach provides revealing details that illuminate the commonality of the characters. In "Farewell Amor," separated immigrants reunite 17 years later for an imperfect American dream 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z To add a prismatic conversation piece to your dressing table this holiday season, look no further than to Bond No. 9. | Bond No. 9's Dreamy New Bottle 2010-12-06T16:09:00Z What results is a prismatic exploration of relationships that hopefully will change Sarah’s mind about getting married. “The Ring Thing”: We won the right to marry, now what the hell do we do with it? 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z The ballet takes us prismatically through so many changes of tone that each couple alters before our eyes. City Ballet Revives ‘Davidsbündlertänze’ and ‘Union Jack’ 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z The ties between the aesthetically appealing and grandly alluring face of the cityscape and the prismatic, mystical secrets that it conceals. Jacques Rivette’s Thirteen-Hour Experimental Film 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z But this brief, prismatic play doesn’t proceed linearly. Review: ‘Bright Half Life,’ a Two-Woman Play by Tanya Barfield 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z A quartet of contrasting hopes and desires, “How Beautiful the Days” is as delicate and prismatic as spun glass. Theater Review: ‘The Most Happy Fella’ Is Revived at City Center 2014-04-03T23:17:30Z Delany’s prismatic output is among the most significant, immense and innovative in American letters. In Praise of Samuel R. Delany 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Hanging in one of the two large, south-facing windows is a small crystal globe that sometimes catches the low-angle winter sunlight and sprinkles prismatic colors around the room. Leaving Alaska 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z As the sun set, the sky itself looked like one of her prismatic paintings. Joni Mitchell Returns to the Stage, Golden, Glorious and in Control 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z The script, showcased as part of Washington’s ongoing Women’s Voices Theater Festival, has a prismatic quality; the light of history glints differently depending on who’s telling it. Review | Thatcher and the queen square off in ‘Handbagged’ 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z What excites me about Baptiste is his prismatic approach to disciplines, his cyclical twining of the mediums of photography, direction, and fashion design. A Young Artist Charts the Journey from “Haiti to Hood” 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z The sculptures resemble bigger-than-life classical human torsos dematerialized into woozy lattices of prismatic light. Art Review: ‘Light and Landscape’ at Storm King Art Center 2012-09-20T21:27:58Z History is also prismatically revealed in Zachary Treitz’s 2015 drama, “Men Go to Battle,” set in a corner of Kentucky that didn’t join the Confederacy and remained loyal to the Union. What to Stream This Weekend 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z Tarantino assembles his prismatic film less like a drama than like a collection of symbolic elements. “The Hateful Eight”: Quentin Tarantino’s Playfully Adolescent Filmmaking 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z At once deeply personal and unreservedly political, the book often reads like a collection of essays illustrating the author’s prismatic identity. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Abloh was prismatic, a designer capable of capturing the varied colors and lights of an evolving culture, refracting and then beaming them out to a waiting world. Virgil Abloh Shocked the System 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z Elsewhere, you might notice how Cézanne distills a pleasant landscape into a prismatic field of subtly overlapping lozenges of color, taming nature’s teeming abundance into an organized patchwork of vibrating diagonals. Review | Want to go deep inside a great artist’s mind? MoMA’s Cézanne exhibition is the one to see this summer. 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z The series, which now numbers about 170 works, is a prismatic view of American culture in the 20th century's second half. 'Jim Shaw: The End Is Here' taps public's id in a weird, humorous way 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z Beth Gill’s dances are so structurally sound they seem like natural phenomena: prismatic, fractal, evolving. Collaboration, Improvisation 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z The scene prismatically references Zouzou the character as well as Baker the actor and music hall performer. Where is the love?: Seeking intimacy in Josephine Baker's films 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z The 1979 Three Mile Island disaster—where “a plumbing problem, a stuck valve, and an ambiguous indicator light” led to a nuclear accident—serves as a prismatic example. ‘Meltdown’ Review: Flirting With Disaster 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z In “Sorrowful Soil,” Björk summons overlapping, antiphonal choirs for a prismatic yet coolly scientific consideration of motherhood: “In a woman’s life she gets 400 eggs but only two or three nests.” On ‘Fossora,’ Björk Is a Daughter, a Mother and a Universe 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z The mysterious forms in Rachel Ostrow’s works, shown by Planthouse, seem to be floating too — in her case, they look like prismatic particles drifting in outer space. The Thrill of Unpredictability at Two Art Fairs 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z But even better than de Bernieres’ prismatic coverage of war is his depiction of ensuing peace. Top 10 Fiction Books 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z It’s unsurprising that American Crime, a look at one case that prismatically shows every imaginable perspective, is undersung and little watched, while Making a Murderer, relying on a single perspective, thrives as a watercooler topic. Review: 'The People v. O.J. Simpson' and 'American Crime' Aim for Ambiguity 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z The layering of color creates a prismatic, almost hallucinatory wavering of form. Homage to Mexico: Josef Albers and His Reality-Based Abstraction 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Watching the prismatic canvas of blues and pinks slowly fade into dusk, the stereotype of “snowbirds” — people who spend their winters in Arizona — suddenly made perfect sense to me. Tucson Is a City That Encourages You to Explore 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z No less striking than its mammoth scale is the building’s dynamic form: a scalloped, prismatic glass volume soaring 200 feet above the opaque, triangular mass of the warehouse. Millions of Square Feet, Billions of Dollars: An Arts Universe Expands 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z It explores the columnist’s prismatic life and the tabloidization of the media and society. Cindy Adams, Gossip’s G.O.A.T. 2021-08-07T04:00:00Z Using Carnegie’s acoustics, he emphasized Shostakovich’s prismatic writing, as when the cautiously eerie beginning of the fourth prelude was juxtaposed with a hazy, enveloping account of its partner fugue. Review: Igor Levit Takes on a Shostakovich Kaleidoscope 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z The title of Dawkins’s book comes from a poem by Keats, who believed that Isaac Newton had destroyed all the poetry of the rainbow by reducing it to the prismatic colors. Atheism’s radical new heroes: Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and an evolving new moral view 2014-03-02T17:00:00Z More suggestive than depictive, Mr. Gurrin’s images — a distant prairie home subjected to slow, prismatic distortions; an industrial building standing placid amid simulated wind gusts — provided poetic counterpoint without distracting unduly from the music. Music Review: Momenta Quartet at the Stone 2013-01-09T22:51:07Z There is page after page of italic script describing in wonderful language the "mizzling rain", "gleamings" of sunshine and "prismatic solar halos". The amazing weather man of the Lake District 2012-06-27T13:00:00Z Bolcom’s prismatic “Twelve New Etudes for Piano” — which contained a crucial dollop of ragging energy — won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1988. Decades Later, a Composer Revisits the Piano Concerto 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z But there’s something about the uncertainty of the hoodie, its unapologetic presence and the prismatic effect its color casts on the rest of this “Passion” that makes it more potent as a symbol, not less. Perspective | A Black Jesus is at the center of a ‘Passion’ that transfigures the listener 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z This time, as Giveon closed out with “Heartbreak Anniversary,” with a devoted audience singing along, his voice stretched and unfurled with full-bodied yearning, a prismatic release that brought light to the inky December night. At the Howard Theater, R&B singer Giveon stretches his vocal chops before a sellout crowd 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z At once personal and political, Akhtar’s second novel can read like a collection of pitch-perfect essays that give shape to a prismatic identity. The 10 Best Books of 2020 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z Harding is generally reluctant to explain what her songs are “about” and gravitates toward prismatic and evocative lyrics that welcome multiple interpretations. Aldous Harding’s Gloriously Peculiar World of Songs 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z The effect is prismatic; the reader is caught up in the swirl of history, privy to secrets but also unbalanced, buffeted around. Mario Vargas Llosa and the Age of the Strongman 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Of the two works the Britten was the more successful realization, its prismatic colors and haunting spirit aptly conveyed by a splendid instrumental ensemble stationed in two corners of the room. Music Review: Juilliard Opera’s ‘Curlew River’ and ‘Riders to the Sea’ 2012-12-10T22:47:15Z Ms. Oliveros returned for the concert’s end, leading the audience in a collective exhalation that wafted and rippled like a prismatic cloud. Music Review: Pauline Oliveros Tribute at Darmstadt Essential Repertoire 2012-06-03T22:18:50Z It’s impossible to experience the prismatic, cinematic effect of the Bauhaus Building without moving through and around it. On the Bauhaus Trail in Germany 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z But “Six Degrees” isn’t a documentary; it’s a prismatic consideration of a society whose disaffections run every bit as deep today. 2010-01-27T06:00:00Z The prismatic repertoire of nearly six decades, it comprises something old, something new, something borrowed and something dark and blue. Familiar Tales Remixed, at the Hands of a Postmodern Master 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Instead it's a wildly prismatic riff on existential identity, the patriarchy, internecine attraction/repulsion and more. Young Jean Lee's risky, intriguing riff on 'Lear' at City Garage 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z You tell this story of con artistry in a prismatic fashion, layering the reality with the dreams of Richie and the townsfolk. Welcome to "Narrowsburg," a tiny town conned out of its Hollywood dreams 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Peering intently into a notebook-computer screen, Mr. Jiménez de Cisneros unleashed a prismatic extended tone at excessive volume. Music Review: Unsound Festival Returns to New York 2014-04-04T21:50:54Z With Ogawa portraying her father at various ages and her younger son at age 5, four other actors play prismatic versions of their playwright-director. What to Do With an Absent Father? Cast Him as a Character Onstage. 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z But Patrick Marber’s near-miraculous production of “Travesties” goes on to locate emotional crosscurrents in a prismatic text that doesn’t necessarily suggest reserves of feeling. Review: ‘Travesties’ and Finding New Depth in Stoppard 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z Captured shortly after the release of the singer-songwriter’s album “22, a Million,” the video features nearly a dozen musicians assembled to reconstruct that record’s glitchy electronics and prismatic vocals in real time. Music, Theater and More to Experience at Home This Weekend 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z How did the paradox of the universe, full of prismatic galaxies and endless emptiness, come to be? Gucci Gives New Meaning to the Contemporary Obsession With Stars 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z It’s the high point of the album, attention-grabbing and prismatic, a slow burn of dense counterpoint. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z The songs, for all their pretty, prismatic intricacies, are remote and forlorn. Washed Out, a Pioneer of Chillwave, Considers an Escape on ‘Mister Mellow’ 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z I use the word prismatic to describe it. Preview: 'Emilie' at ArtsWest shows an 18th-century female scientist's remarkable life, loves 2011-01-20T22:26:03Z And Terence Broad’s “Blade Runner — Autoencoded,” which immerses Ridley Scott’s film in its own cloudy, prismatic atmosphere, leaves the dialogue as the primary tracking device. Diving Into Movie Palaces of the Mind at the Whitney 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Edward Einhorn’s prismatic new sci-fi play “Alma Baya,” at A.R.T./New York, can be viewed as a metaphor for any number of current catastrophes, the pandemic and climate change among them. Review: When a Stranger Knocks at the Airlock 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z But I’m not the target audience: the masked-up kids in “The Nature of Color” were having a blast, preening in front of projected lights and staring wide-eyed at their prismatic reflections. Seeing Color: A Matter of Nature, or Culture? 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z Lawrence floridly called “the prismatic ecstasy of heightened consciousness.” Review | Is Poe the most influential American writer? A new book offers evidence. 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z As a prismatic bonus, the backs of several sculptures have been painted in solid neon-bright colors. A Rare Look at Rauschenberg’s Second Act 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z They perpetuate reductive ideas about reggaeton, obscuring the prismatic conditions of its past and present. Reggaeton’s History Is Complex. A New Podcast Helps Us Listen That Way. 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z In the early 1960s he began painting in a semi-abstract prismatic style influenced by his father and Kandinsky. T. Lux Feininger, Photographer and Painter, Dies at 101 2011-07-14T00:41:06Z “Homeland Elegies” is presented as a novel, Akhtar’s second, but often reads like a series of personal essays, each one illustrating yet another intriguing facet of the narrator’s prismatic identity. ‘Homeland Elegies’ Sings for a Fading Dream of National Belonging 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z But at this “Betrayal,” I sometimes felt his lean, elliptical sentences were as prismatic as Shakespearean soliloquies. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Surprised by 'Betrayal' 2011-07-13T16:31:48Z Though prismatic, it feels carefully woven as it touches on gospel and jazz traditions as well as contemporary idioms. Review: The Philharmonic Departs From Business as Usual 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z The series is showing an experimental short from Jodie Mack, “Let Your Light Shine,” that will require prismatic glasses. A Film Series Celebrates 3-D and Its Glasses 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z What does not fail is the language Betts sends prismatically through his experience, rendering the entire spectrum of the prison-industrial complex visible. A Poet and Ex-Con Writes About Life After Prison 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Built on an insistent drum machine beat and prismatic layers of modular synths, the song gradually becomes something more expansive. The Weeknd’s ‘Avatar’ Anthem, and 8 More New Songs 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Both Mr. Bernstein’s arrangements and Mr. Butler’s playing exulted in a prismatic hindsight. Music Review: Henry Butler With Steve Bernstein at the Jazz Standard 2014-01-02T22:31:14Z As the movie cuts back and forth between those dueling Brians, each of the performances, in its own way, contributes to a prismatic whole. Finding Beach Boy Brian Wilson 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z “Strong Island” is a personal documentary that pays prismatic attention to personal experience and extracts the strains of political power that shape it. What to Stream This Weekend: How to Find Good Movies on Netflix 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z As they turn, they reflect the sunlight filtered through the colored films, creating a crystalline, prismatic play of colors. Light and Dark at MoMA, the Morgan, the Armory and Beyond 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z Space collapses into prismatic fluidity, and scale is a free-for-all. Dasha Shishkin's dive into decadence 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z Marzorati follows Williams through 2019 but uses a “prismatic” approach as he jumps in time, covering Williams’s tennis career, fashion aspirations, family life and social media presence. Review | Serena Williams is more than a tennis player. ‘Seeing Serena’ offers a prismatic view of her impact. 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z Even very fine novelists struggle with character, because creating characters that are not just prismatic snap-off versions of oneself happens to be supremely difficult. Everything About Everything: David Foster Wallace’s ‘Infinite Jest’ at 20 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Then we continued, stopping to read about the valley’s history at the log cabin schoolhouse, admire the prismatic spray at Rainbow Falls, and poke around an apple orchard. In the Cascades, a Trifecta for Outdoor Enthusiasts 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z “Landfall” is prismatic, with no linear structure; it features multiple characters, creating an impressionistic composite of a community making sense of political instability and natural disaster. Two New Documentaries Give Caribbean Stories the Depths They Deserve 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z Kempson, who wrote and directed, is no stranger to wildly postmodern, genre-defying work, and here her Shelley is prismatic, existing, as she says, in the “space between known and unknown.” Review: Road-Tripping with Frankenstein’s Monster in ‘Maery S.’ 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z In “Oki’s Movie,” Mr. Hong moves from the perspective of one character to the next in a prismatic collection of tales. Films of Hong Sang-soo Capture Pleasures and Pratfalls of Attraction 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z “Good News” proves Megan’s prodigious talent, but it also suggests that, with a bit more digging, this gem could emit an even more prismatic shine. Snapshots of the Many Megan Thee Stallions 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z On the “Renaissance” tour, he’s behind a shimmery, prismatic coat and dress. The ultimate guide to everything Beyoncé 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z The new Indiana plant will house production lines to build nickel-rich prismatic and cylindrical cells and is expected to help significantly increase the accessibility and affordability of electric vehicles. GM, Samsung SDI teaming to build more than $3B EV battery cell plant in Indiana 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z One hundred years ago, James Joyce published “Ulysses,” Modernism’s essential text when it comes to prismatic characterization. How 2022 became the year of the fragmented-identity novel 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z The Times called it a “prismatic and often mesmerizing debut.” Why the Crypto Collapse Matters 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z Along with these reflective, prismatic surfaces, her piece also includes soundscapes: field recordings taken at the corner of Seventh and Florida that capture the patter of traffic and conversation along with go-go drums. Four art shows spotlight Black portraiture 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z If they illustrate anything other than pure color, it might be the qualities of prismatic light. Review | In the galleries: When words and images intertwine 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z “Diamonds” offers a prismatic look at the actress, the culture and the times. Perspective | Marilyn Monroe was a great dancer. You wouldn’t know it from ‘Blonde.’ 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z The title character is, again, a prismatic set of identities — a Black, Colombian trans parolee navigating Brooklyn in the day after she’s been released. How 2022 became the year of the fragmented-identity novel 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z Light: Unique to images is the use of light to highlight or obscure various parts of an image or to create prismatic effects that enhance its repetitive aspects. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z In the first millennium B.C., its anonymous builders cut windows into two-foot walls of rock so that sunlight would reflect off the prismatic surfaces and illuminate rooms of rock with diffuse afternoon light. Building the First Long-Distance Hiking Trail in Kurdistan 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z With a shimmering pale pink morganite sun at the center and a whimsical tassel of onyx and red spinels, it embodies an invigorating combination: one of chaste geometry and prismatic psychedelia. Near Japan’s Mount Asama, a Wine Bar Floats Among the Trees 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z Dizzyingly prismatic yet unfailingly lucid in its examination of the many layers of gender, sexual and racial identity, “Framing Agnes” releases wave after wave of insights over its fleet 75-minute running time. From 'Nanny' to 'The Exiles,' a virtual Sundance puts a human face on past and present horrors 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z But Stewart has long confounded our notions of the ordinary and the extraordinary, and her brilliantly prismatic performance is both a natural extension of her image and a nervy departure from it. Review: Kristen Stewart's 'Spencer' continues the Diana-ssance. But don't call it a biopic 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Though this explanation has not gained a significant following, it demonstrates how Chicxulub attracts prismatic perspectives from the worlds of cosmology, computational science, astrobiology and other fields. The Rock That Ended the Dinosaurs Was Much More Than a Dino Killer 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z Cylindrical and prismatic batteries are cased in hard materials. Explainer: Are lithium-ion batteries in EVs a fire hazard? 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z Schmall said it would not be a big deal for battery suppliers to switch to production of prismatic cells, although analysts suggested doing so would require significant reinvestment and time to overhaul factories. Power Play: Volkswagen abruptly pulls plug on South Korean battery makers 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z The technology highlighted in the report, like prismatic cells for storing electrical charges, was cutting-edge, but the economic thinking behind it was decidedly old-school. The Biden Team Wants to Transform the Economy. Really. 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z But our conversations kept circling back to this prismatic neurosis, in which you worry about every version of how other people see you. The Many Lives of Steven Yeun 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z Working in all media, contemporary artists continue to evolve the form, drawing from a prismatic array of philosophies, traditions and cultural movements — from ecofeminism and shamanism to Mexicayotl and Black Power. A new 'Library of Esoterica' brings the occult to your coffee table 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z Compared with cylindrical and prismatic cells, pouch-type battery cells allow for lighter and thinner cell fabrication, and design flexibility for different capacities and space requirements for different vehicle models. Explainer: Are lithium-ion batteries in EVs a fire hazard? 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z The film delivers a prismatic retelling of the Cooper saga through four of the case’s prime suspects, all of whom are now deceased. 49 years ago, D.B. Cooper became an ideal hero for cynical times. He still is. 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z Others are slender, 8-foot rods in triangular cross-sections, which lean upright against the wall, the object’s rough or polished surfaces creating prismatic effects. Appreciation: How artist Peter Alexander caught clouds in a box and used color to profound effect 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z This was unpleasant, but Yeun also realized that a life and career in Korea wouldn’t actually break him out of the prismatic neurosis. The Many Lives of Steven Yeun 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z To make her semi-optimistic case, Laskey takes a prismatic approach, featuring 11 distinctive narrators and following AAA staffers and locals as they share stories about their lives. Review: Acceptance comes to Kansas, like it or not, in prismatic 'Under the Rainbow' 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z Ultimately, the book is about accepting multiplicity and the prismatic nature of truth and justice. ‘The Third Rainbow Girl’ explores the complicated relationship between truth and justice 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z The line offers a range of color rock ’n’ roll looks, including liquid lipstick, amplified eyeshadows, prismatic eyeliners and eco-friendly glitter. The state of beauty: 10 favorite trends and products worth exploring now 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z Lerner, with his poet’s eye for the strengths and fallibility of language, is precise and prismatic in his investigations. Review: The past is not only prologue in 'The Topeka School,' it’s happening now. 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z I don’t know how often these prismatic reflections manifest themselves. Perspective | A trick of the light: Reflections of an L Street building color the neighborhood 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z The paintings’ prismatic, crystalline structure paradoxically breathes, as if poised to open and close like a flower. Review: Sonic frequency as art? Enter Steve Roden's captivating prisms of color 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z As a result, “Game of Thrones” took on a prismatic quality. Opinion | ‘Game of Thrones’ was an imperfect show that was perfect for its era 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z His emotionally prismatic, novelistic first feature, 2011’s “In the Family,” laid bare a fraught custody battle with uncommon grace, and his latest, “A Bread Factory,” just in cinemas, earned that overused term “intimate epic.” Review: 'The Grief of Others' is another example of Patrick Wang's restrained, soulful filmmaking - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Her earrings, obsidian chandelier dangles heavy as hood ornaments, cast prismatic shadows on her clavicle and seemed to threaten the general integrity of her otherwise regal posture. Lady Gaga Isn’t Done Shape-Shifting Yet 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z The book’s larger flaw is that Kaufman seems so eager to press his thesis from his own prismatic view that his story suffers from distortions by omission. Review | Charting Wisconsin’s turn from progressive politics to sharp conservatism 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Handstands and guns appear, ghostly music, exigency — the passage bursts with vernacular gumption, prismatic parlance. Poem: From ‘We Are Here to Slow Time’ 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Roth takes his place in that list, without question, although his singular narrators were themselves plural, as Portnoy-Zuckerman-Roth prismatically refracted the nation, and the man, back to themselves. How Philip Roth wrote America 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z A languid, sometimes portentous composition, the sequence of scraping, clanging, creaking, gonging sounds is as aurally prismatic as the colors are visually. Artist Olafur Eliasson built a 'Reality projector' of smashing beauty 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z Its themes challenge institutional bias, its characters take unsubtle digs at oppressors, and its narrative includes prismatic perspectives on black life and tradition. Behind the Revolutionary Power of Black Panther 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z When Sir Isaac Newton separated white light into its prismatic colours, the effect, Keats wrote, was to “unweave a rainbow”. What makes humans inventive? 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z It was only a year ago that the world of L.G.B.T.Q. night life — in all its prismatic, out-and-proud glory — was devastated by the mass shooting in the Orlando, Fla., nightclub Pulse. Defiant on the Dance Floor: L.G.B.T.Q. Night Life in New York, 2017 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z We are drawn to it because it reveals the prismatic human being. Marc Maron, Margaret Atwood and More on Envy 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z “The sun, coming in flat, knocks a prismatic oval out of the tumbler and lays it on the ceiling.” How to Heal a Traumatized Dog: Read It a Story 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Rather, the film looks at the nature of the interpretation of reality itself, via a prismatic method of storytelling that incorporates dreams, mistakes of perception and the unreliable narrator. ‘Louder Than Bombs’: A quiet yet resounding film about truth and lies 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z He didn’t know it then, but I’m a fan of the company’s apps: Fragment, which applies prismatic effects to photos, is one of my favorite artistic tools. Life and death in the App Store 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z The play begins in Celia's jail cell on the eve of her execution and it's told from the perspective of 26 people, a technique Seyda calls "prismatic and kaleidoscopic." Barbara Seyda wins $10,000 Yale Drama Series Prize 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z The play begins in Celia’s jail cell on the eve of her execution and it’s told from the perspective of 26 people, a technique Seyda calls “prismatic and kaleidoscopic.” Barbara Seyda wins $10,000 Yale Drama Series Prize 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z There’s also a cost aspect to this problem of prismatic domain names. Why, Even After A Year, There's Still No Land Grab For New Internet Domains 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Gartel is working on a life-sized version of the iconic statuette, which he’s wrapping in his psychedelic imagery using vinyl, glitter and prismatic materials. Florida digital artist creating piece for Grammys 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z The glass façade suggests, in turn, the long French infatuation with glass walls—prismatic, waving, billowing, or bending—as the symbol and material of modernity or, in this case, postmodernity. The View from a Bridge 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z The architects' aim, as expressed in a 2011 journal article, is "brute strength veiled in prismatic elegance." One World Trade Center 'a bold but flawed giant' 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z The worst case is that a pink prismatic gem is introduced, making the very rare gem possessed by the buyer a very rare prismatic gem with an aesthetic effect indistinguishable from far less rare gems. Was A $38,000 Piece Of Dota 2 Loot Just Patched To Worthlessness? 2013-11-14T17:05:00Z And both women project a prismatic, cutting intelligence on screen that sometimes distances them from their characters. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Guts and Glory, Onstage 2012-08-02T17:05:12Z Christopher O. Ward, the executive director of the authority when the decision was made to abandon prismatic glass, called it “a good design that couldn’t be fabricated.” City Room: 1 World Trade Center Is a Changed Presence 2012-06-12T23:29:24Z The same remarks might be made respecting the harmony of shades of colour with colours of prismatic intensity. Principles of Decorative Design Fourth Edition 2012-05-22T15:16:52.423Z When the colors are caused by diffraction instead of refraction, the red is on the outside of the prismatic ring and the halo is called a corona. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z Within this “wheel” was another and smaller one, also composed of the same prismatic hues. Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence amongst the Women of the East 2012-04-18T02:00:15.997Z PHLOX, L. Calyx narrow, somewhat prismatic, or plaited and angled. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z A well-marked prismatic cleavage renders the mineral rather difficult to cut. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z It occurs in white or yellowish transparent, prismatic crystals. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z It has often a prismatic structure as at the Giant's Causeway, in Ireland, where the columns are as regular as if the work of art. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z The sun was sinking as a ball of fire behind the river, when suddenly from its centre there arose beautiful prismatic lights. Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence amongst the Women of the East 2012-04-18T02:00:15.997Z Capsule prismatic or elongated-oblong, 3-celled, opening by 3 small lateral valves.—Low annuals, with axillary blue or purplish flowers, in American species dimorphous, the earlier being cleistogamous. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Hiddenite occurs in small slender monoclinic crystals of prismatic habit, often pitted on the surface. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z The name is an old one of German origin, and was used for any dark-coloured prismatic crystals from which metals could not be extracted. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z Our nobleman did not hesitate; the handle to his door bell was not of gold, but mother-of-pearl, pure and prismatic. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z The golden hues predominated; but in rapid succession prismatic colors leaped forth. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z Calyx prismatic, 5-toothed, separating transversely above the base in fruit, the upper part falling away. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z We may say that for measures such as we shall make, it is handier to employ prisms, as the prismatic spectrum is more intense than the diffraction spectrum. Colour Measurement and Mixture 2012-02-27T03:00:13.987Z Imagination To the child, from the beginning, life is the unfolding of one vast mystery; to him our stalest commonplaces are great news, our dullest facts prismatic wonders. Wings and the Child or, the Building of Magic Cities 2012-02-26T03:00:14.933Z Another theatre faced the square, gay with prismatic signs and besprinkled with electric lights. Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color 2012-02-20T03:00:20.550Z No colours are so vividly bright as when this triumphal arch bespans a dark nimbus: then it unfolds them in due prismatic proportion, “running from the red to where the violet fades into the sky.” Meteorology or Weather Explained 2012-02-20T03:00:18.847Z Scheele was also the first to discover and make known the fact that chloride of silver was blackened or reduced to various depths by the varying action of the prismatic colours. The Evolution of Photography With a Chronological Record of Discoveries, Inventions, etc., Contributions to Photographic Literature, and Personal Reminescences Extending over Forty Years 2012-02-15T03:00:30.577Z We are apt to forget, when looking at the spectrum, that what the eye sees is not all that is to be found in the prismatic analysis of light. Colour Measurement and Mixture 2012-02-27T03:00:13.987Z Theobald listened, while his eyes wandered over the blue line of mountains, glittering now through rifts of driving smoke in the prismatic haze of a hot afternoon. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z Yesterday, before the sky clouded over, there was a most remarkable ring or halo of prismatic colours round the sun, ominous of the storm which has followed. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z Then a prismatic circle, with the red inside, formed round the shadow. Meteorology or Weather Explained 2012-02-20T03:00:18.847Z Here, too, is to be seen the marvellous beauty of the prismatic colours almost daily. The Evolution of Photography With a Chronological Record of Discoveries, Inventions, etc., Contributions to Photographic Literature, and Personal Reminescences Extending over Forty Years 2012-02-15T03:00:30.577Z The scale is that of the prismatic spectrum employed. Colour Measurement and Mixture 2012-02-27T03:00:13.987Z The passions and prejudices are prismatic—they color thoughts. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z The crystals are prismatic in habit, and closely resemble topaz in form and interfacial angles. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z But the great novelty is in the arrangement of the different tints, most of them thinking they are not sufficiently well-dressed if they leave out any of the prismatic colours. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z This assemblage contains a pronounced EUP component that includes points on large prismatic blades, blades with steep retouch, and retouched and simple burins on truncations or breaks. [Technical Comment] Comment on ?Late Mousterian Persistence near the Arctic Circle? 2012-01-12T19:25:22.327Z Owing to the sacrifice of form to prismatic brilliance, cut-glass gradually lost its artistic value. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z Beyond each end of that prismatic ribbon are ether-waves of which our retina takes no cognisance. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z The habit of the crystals may be rhombohedral, pyramidal or tabular, rarely prismatic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z From the roof hung a prismatic cut-glass chandelier, lighted with fish oil, which was subsequently replaced by petroleum; but that reform I never saw. The Fourth Estate, vol.1 2011-12-25T03:00:10.170Z Shaped Powders.—Prisms or prismatic powder are made by breaking up the press-cake into a moderately fine state, whilst still moist, and pressing a certain quantity in a mould. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z Scray!” till all the prismatic crystals in the old-fashioned chandelier jingled to the sound. Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat 2011-12-08T03:00:24.107Z The glittering mass was a huge egg-shaped ball of quartz, of a semi-transparent, milky hue, flashing and gleaming in the radiant sunshine, with the glorious prismatic colours that flash from the unlucky opal. From Veldt Camp Fires 2011-12-01T03:00:21.397Z Gypsum crystallizes in the monoclinic system, the habit of the crystals being usually either prismatic or tabular; in the latter case the broad planes are parallel to the faces of the clinopinacoid. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z The Grand Stand, a structure bare as a mountain top to the assaults of sun and wind, was canopied with parasols and prismatic with millinery. Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-11-24T03:00:44.527Z The latest comedies, the latest fashions, the latest scandals—they came and went, verbal drops sliding over the acute edge of conversation, each touched with prismatic hues of humour, irony, or cynicism. The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel 2011-11-17T03:00:37.293Z The prismatic winged thing fluttered over some pebbles and alighted on a slender willow twig. An Oregon Girl A Tale of American Life in the New West 2011-11-17T03:00:31.330Z The top of the easy passage bears by prismatic compass 23� from the highest cairn, and is marked by a large stone. Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England 2011-11-14T03:00:21.670Z Such cells “carry much less energy per cell than the larger prismatic cells preferred by other manufacturers, providing an additional layer of safety,” Reyes said. GM Volt Fire After Crash Said to Prompt Lithium-Battery Probe 2011-11-12T13:41:57Z The drab colours of London were shot with prismatic hues; never had the streets appeared so beautiful. Across the Stream 2011-11-05T02:00:11.673Z The achievement of such mental simplicity, escaping the prismatic illusion of the world, is the first condition of contemplation. Ruysbroeck 2011-10-29T02:00:16.413Z The monoclinic crystals are prismatic in habit, with deeply striated prism and dome faces. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" 2011-10-22T02:00:29.487Z Instead, however, of the gray or somber shades to which I had been accustomed, these objects were of various hues and combined the brilliancy of the primary prismatic colors, with the purity of clean snow. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z In this case the lateral faces must be extended, thus forming what is called a prismatic space. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z This is the cause of the prismatic colours; for iridescent tints are produced by the play of light upon the glittering plates, as they incessantly change their angle. Through Magic Glasses and Other Lectures A Sequel to The Fairyland of Science 2011-10-03T02:00:33.003Z A gleam of his light fell upon the curling mist and Clearchus saw it tinged with the prismatic colors of the rainbow. The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great 2011-10-02T02:00:13.920Z The poem is written in brown, on a ground bright with tremulous colours which wane and wax in prismatic variation. William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work 2011-09-13T02:00:35.943Z "But on the surface of the earth we have all possible combinations of the seven prismatic rays," I answered. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z Practical applications are easily suggested in connection with beams, corridors, and prismatic columns, such as are often seen in school buildings. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z Joshua also noticed the picture of Soap Bubbles dated 1663, representing a boy at an open and vine-framed window, blowing bubbles that are exquisitely painted and show beautiful reflections and prismatic colors. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z Just out of reach of a fiercely burning building, the water rose like a colossal fountain, throwing exquisite sprays of prismatic colour into the sunny air. The Red Cross Barge 2011-09-05T02:00:20.603Z The sun, which forms the nimbus of God’s head, emits strange prismatic rays, very beautiful and weird. William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work 2011-09-13T02:00:35.943Z The dancers, among whom was her fair and smiling granddaughter of eighteen, chased the jolly hours in a spacious apartment, brilliant with prismatic candelabra and a lustrous floor of waxed wood. The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z As in the preceding proposition, so in this case, there may be a question raised that will make it helpful to introduce the idea of prismatic space. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z For the six-wives matter was in reality a bubble, large it is true, prismatic, many-coloured, interesting, visible throughout Europe, minutely gossiped over on every hearth. Body, Parentage and Character in History Notes on the Tudor Period 2011-08-08T02:00:20.193Z Soon, in the magic of the atmosphere, appeared three suns of prismatic colors. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z How delicate and transparent it is, while radiating prismatic colors! Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z The bells shine with a pearly iridescent lustre, and their cilia flash with brilliant prismatic colours. Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations 2011-08-01T02:00:12.067Z The capitals of the prismatic pillars and the key-stones of the arches were adorned with escutcheons, fleur-de-lys, flowers and crockets. Rheims and the Battles for its Possession Illustrated Michelin Guides to the Battle-Fields (1914-1918) 2011-07-31T02:00:09.963Z Take cognizance of its various aspects as though inspecting it through a prismatic glass. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z This gradually paled, and over the horizon opposite there rose an arc in feeble prismatic colors with a dark zone of purple under it. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z The humidity of the atmosphere especially facilitates the growth of this beautiful family of plants, which are as erratic in shape as they are variegated in prismatic colors. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z Experiments followed: iron, sodium, copper, etc., were heated to incandescence and their colours prismatically separated. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z Further, the prismatic rays will render visible the results of some of the influences dependent upon the environment with which it is surrounded, which play upon it before and after birth. Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women 2011-07-20T02:00:13.547Z I’ve seen it through a golden haze, and I’ve seen it through a violet haze, but always with these prismatic colours; it is at its very best at noontide. Stevenson's Shrine The Record of a Pilgrimage 2011-07-18T02:00:23.520Z When it is near the horizon, or when the atmosphere is very unsteady, Sirius flashes prismatic colors like a great diamond. Astronomy with an Opera-glass A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Starry Heavens with the Simplest of Optical Instruments 2011-07-17T02:00:30.177Z Nearly as big as a hen's egg, clean, hard opal of prismatic fires in sparkling jet, they agreed that it as the biggest and finest knobby either of them had ever seen. The Black Opal 2011-07-13T02:00:16.323Z The panes began to be covered with frost, and the light from the neighbour's room opposite glittered in prismatic colours upon the ice-flowers and trees. Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z It is sometimes found crested, columnar, prismatic, or in tabular crystallizations. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z Here and there it exhibited cascades and slight waterfalls that danced in the sunlight, sending up showers of prismatic spray. The White Squaw 2011-07-05T02:00:26.437Z These are called prismatic colors, because they were first separated by the passing of a ray of pure light through a prism. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z The range was already prismatic, sharpened into fresh beauty below a sky as blue as June. The Higher Court 2011-06-27T02:01:00.213Z At four equidistant points of the circumference, stand as many towers, projecting externally in a semi-cylindrical form, whilst on the interior they are prismatic. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z Structural colours include all metallic or prismatic colours, blue, green, white, some yellows, and, in part, glossy black. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z His eyes were equal, if not superior to the best prismatic binoculars ever turned out by Dollond or Zeiss, and Nature had apparently corrected them for chromatic and all other aberrations. Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z We sped through the woods'-road, a prismatic arcade of interlaced crystals; along the river bank beside the vast frozen expanse of the St. Lawrence, gleaming and glittering with blinding reflected radiance. A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z The slanting beams set all the scene a-shimmer with prismatic radiance from the snow crystals. The Shooting of Dan McGrew, A Novel Based on the Famous Poem of Robert Service 2011-05-28T02:00:24.557Z Brilliant, dazzling, vivid, a beacon and a blessing, her light may be, but only a happy home blends the prismatic rays into a soft serene whiteness, that floods the world with divine illumination. A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z The plan was to drape the base with 2,000 clear prismatic glass panels and welded aluminum screens to create, in the words of the architect, “a dynamic, shimmering glass surface.” Feature at Trade Center Is Halted After $10 Million 2011-05-12T00:43:04Z There was plenty of solid furniture, dating from the dark ages before modern �stheticism had arisen to reform upholstery and teach us the original sinfulness of the prismatic colours. That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 1 2011-04-26T02:00:29.063Z From the lofty roof hang monster stalactites covered with millions of flashing crystals full of prismatic hues. Cuba Past and Present 2011-04-16T02:00:18.193Z Beneath the sun, the white expanse shimmered in prismatic brilliance. The Shooting of Dan McGrew, A Novel Based on the Famous Poem of Robert Service 2011-05-28T02:00:24.557Z Nowhere else are the prismatic hues exhibited in such wonderful variety, nor in such surpassing brilliancy and beauty. The Falls of Niagara and Other Famous Cataracts 2011-03-26T02:00:15.717Z In trials, the refinishing required for the prismatic effect has left the glass brittle and prone to shatter. Feature at Trade Center Is Halted After $10 Million 2011-05-12T00:43:04Z Patient has only used the prismatic spectacles then prescribed off and on, as the symptoms are sometimes more troublesome, sometimes less so, and he exerts his eyes but little on the whole. Schweigger on Squint A Monograph by Dr. C. Schweigger 2011-03-22T02:00:22.370Z The crags were begirt with icicles, reaching down many feet and brilliant with elusive prismatic glimmers. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z In the white cups of the wild vines that drape with tender grace the willows and elders on the banks of the little stream, prismatic drops of dew are shining. Erlach Court 2011-03-12T03:00:24.407Z It crystallizes in the monoclinic system, the crystals being generally of prismatic habit, striated vertically, and terminated by acute pyramids. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z In June 2006, Mr. Childs unveiled a revised design with the concrete base now clad in prismatic glass welded to aluminum screens, to give the base a feeling of transparency. Feature at Trade Center Is Halted After $10 Million 2011-05-12T00:43:04Z The asthenopic disorders remain unchanged and are not removed even by prismatic spectacles. Schweigger on Squint A Monograph by Dr. C. Schweigger 2011-03-22T02:00:22.370Z It is yonder beautiful transparent ball, all radiant with prismatic colours, that we expend our breath upon. A Charming Fellow, Volume I (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:28.240Z A prismatic ray of sunshine fell across the neat creases of the snowy table-cloth. Erlach Court 2011-03-12T03:00:24.407Z At Acireale the lava has assumed the prismatic or columnar form in a striking manner; at the rock of Aci it is in parts spheroidal. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z Indeed, we find evidence in all the rocks, especially those which are prismatic and concretionary, of the active influence of galvanism and electro-magnetism in their production. The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z The prismatic glasses usually attached to stereoscopes are here quite superfluous. Schweigger on Squint A Monograph by Dr. C. Schweigger 2011-03-22T02:00:22.370Z First she let the splendid stones glisten in the lamp light, then flash in the moon's radiance, while she revelled in the sparkling lights and the prismatic rays which played to and fro. Withered Leaves. Vol. III.(of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:13.983Z The room resembled a meadow, upon which had bloomed the gayest field and woodland flowers mostly in light colours, the Baute family especially appeared like a prismatic rainbow. Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:10.707Z There were lizards whose scales glittered like the waves of the sea in the sunshine, each scale a massive prismatic metallic plate. The Ravens and the Angels With Other Stories and Parables 2011-02-23T03:00:29.860Z Well-developed crystals are of frequent occurrence: they are commonly prismatic in habit, the direction of elongation being perpendicular to the single plane of symmetry. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z These exhibit the prismatic colors upon their surface. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z The problem is this:—A cylindrical or prismatic bar is held twisted by terminal couples; it is required to determine the state of stress and strain in the interior. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" 2011-01-29T03:00:23.777Z Violet, scarlet and red, Purple and dark maroon, And over it all the music of fall— A weird prismatic tune. The Blood of Rachel A Dramatization of Esther, and other poems 2011-01-14T03:00:46.933Z Mr. Riddle raised the sconce above his head, and there burst on a sudden a shimmering flash of a thousand prismatic colours from the head of the staircase. Parlous Times A Novel of Modern Diplomacy 2011-01-13T03:01:14.887Z My endeavours were vain as to the former; but the small one broke into many fragments, and proved to contain minute prismatic crystals, which were quite transparent; some white, others of a deep yellow. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 2010-12-31T03:00:11.350Z Woman understands love and herself; Man thinks he understands both; and the fictitious fervor of Monsieur Michelet has no more effect upon either than so much prismatic froth. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 2010-12-28T03:00:18.560Z As the sun poured his light upon the Plateau the little snow-facets sparkled brilliantly, sometimes with a pure white light, and at others with prismatic colours. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. The prismatic variety of the oxide can be obtained by crystallization from a saturated boiling solution in potassium hydroxide, or by the crystallization of a solution of silver arsenite in nitric acid. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" Some are thick, and more or less prismatic in form; while others are slightly or deeply pectinated or comb-like. Butterflies and Moths (British) It forms yellowish-red prismatic crystals, nearly insoluble in cold, but dissolved to a small extent by boiling water, and readily soluble in alcohol and ether. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide It crystallizes in the orthorhombic system, and the crystals are either prismatic or acicular in habit. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" The colours of flowers are also very impure; in fact, to get pure colours we must resort to a delicate prismatic analysis of white light. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. When the sun escapes from the clouds and penetrates this watery ebullition, momentary rainbows bind the moistened atmosphere together with a lovely arch of prismatic hues. The Story of Malta He is the inventor of the rock crystal prismatic micrometer, the ring micrometer. The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time Am′ethyst, a violet-blue or purple variety of quartz, generally occurring crystallized in hexahedral prisms or pyramids, also in rolled fragments, composed of imperfect prismatic crystals. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide It is a white powder, almost insoluble in water, and when volatilized, condenses in two crystalline forms, either octahedral or prismatic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" Rainbow-coloured beams from the upper windows fell athwart the nave in rich prismatic streams. Glories of Spain When the cave is lighted by torches or magnesium wire, the effect is extremely beautiful, the thousands of crystalline stalactites suspended from the ceiling reflecting prismatic colors of extraordinary brilliancy. The Story of Malta Scalariform ducts of a Fern; part of a bundle, prismatic by pressure. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools Its end is a prismatic pyramid of copper, riveted to an iron shank in a wooden handle. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" The crystals of octahedral borax fuse more easily than those of the prismatic form and are less liable to split when heated, so that they are preferable for soldering or fluxing. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" It contains many interspersed crystals of selenite; between its lamina there is much powdery alum, mixed with sulphur, and it is traversed by veins of brown selenite, in slender prismatic crystals. Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea The prismatic flare of color out there pleases me. The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop At 5 A.M., overcast generally, with hazy clouds and fog of prismatic shades, chiefly greenish-yellow; 7 A.M. The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes He raised his right hand, slowly, and a tiny prismatic gleam darted from the blade of an opened razor—one of his precious set of six. The Book of Susan A Novel His gaze was ever in the distance, and each time he gained high ground he swept the surrounding country with a pair of powerful prismatic field-glasses. Spies of the Kaiser Plotting the Downfall of England The surrounding circle was nearly complete, and displayed the prismatic colours vividly; from the centre of the sun's disk a beam of bright light extended upwards several degrees beyond the circle. Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea In both these cases, however, the rock may rather be said to be divided into numerous perpendicular fissures, than to be prismatic, although the same picturesque effect is produced. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology She was standing beneath a cactus, whose great prismatic blossoms in the background hung like a shower of crimson stars, one of them just touching her dark hair. Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt Crystals are usually prismatic in habit with a rectangular cross-section as shown in the figure: the angle between the prism faces m, parallel to which there are perfect cleavages, is 92� 50′. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" A burning labyrinth, in whose glowing passages the prismatic colors changed every moment. Black Diamonds He was standing erect when he woke, his back to the open sea and a prismatic glimmer of early-dawn rainbow shining on the water before him. The Anglers of Arz The formula expressing the optical power of prismatic spectroscopes may readily be investigated upon the principles of the wave theory. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" The glowing fancy of Wirt has, perhaps, thrown over these particulars some prismatic coloring. History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia The simplest way of showing dispersion is to refract a narrow beam of sunlight through a prism of glass or prismatic vessel containing water or other clear liquid. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" The sea for leagues and leagues rolled blue, foaming, brilliant; wool-like clouds, lovely with prismatic glitterings in their skirts, as they sailed from the sun, were speeding into the south-east. A Marriage at Sea It forms dark blue prismatic crystals containing 3, 4, or 6 molecules of water according to the temperature of crystallization. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" You will see a mite, a little baby girl that cannot walk or talk, clothed in silk crepe of the most brilliant colour possible—rainbow colour, almost prismatic in its brilliancy. Japan A Record in Colour But the prismatic quality of her fancy remained unimpaired. Eden An Episode They were proudly led by a drake, whose restless neck, with its brilliant prismatic hues, shone like a cluster of oriental gems in the glow of the morning sun. The Pearl of India The heavens looked high with fine weather clouds, prismatic mare-tails for the most part, here and there a snow-white, swelling shoulder of vapour hovering over the edge of the sea. A Marriage at Sea It was a cloudy day, yet the front glistened with prismatic splendor. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 A chandelier of crystal, hanging by a chain from the remote ceiling, with a frosted sparkle like an illuminated wedding cake, unaffected by prismatic green and red flashes, filled the interior with a chilly brightness. The Bright Shawl He glittered from head to foot, with dirk, pistol, and skean-dhu, and at least a hundred-weight of cairngorms cast a prismatic glory around his person. Tales from Blackwood, Volume 1 In the daytime, radiant, sun-loving butterflies on gossamer wings fill the atmosphere with flashing prismatic hues, the harlequin-like parrot and the royal-plumed peacock completing the outdoor carnival of colors. The Pearl of India There is generally a tendency in coals towards cleaving into cubical or prismatic blocks, but sometimes the cohesion between the particles is so feeble that the mass breaks up into dust when struck. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" Convulsively her little teeth bit into her lower lip as she adjusted the telescope portion of the instrument for analyzing light–reducing it to prismatic hues–a little. Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl For oft at dawn hast not beheld A spirit of prismatic hue Blow wide the buds, which night has swelled? The Garden of Dreams How can they receive and reflect the rays of light, analyzing them into all the splendour of their prismatic beauty, while they are kept shut up tight in the dirty little hands? Kept for the Master's Use Babylon, then, prismatic and learned, was the most respectable place on earth. The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal The trains were commonly white, but the various prismatic colors occasionally appeared, vividly and beautifully displayed. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 If the prismatic colours be painted on a surface which is revolved with great rapidity, the individual colours will not be apparent. On the Nature of Thought or, The act of thinking and its connexion with a perspicuous sentence The long, slender, simple columella is not only lateral, but occupies indeed the sharp vertical angle of the triangular, prismatic sporangium. The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species As he hangs his drapery from one cornice to another, the prismatic scenes that come before him serve to lengthen that life which might seem to be cut off before its time. Stories by American Authors, Volume 3 A million glistening scales prismatically reflected the increasing morning light. The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories At the end of a gleaming pathway rose a castle built entirely of crystal, its innumerable domes and turrets reflecting the light in a thousand prismatic hues. Legends & Romances of Brittany A mother is so near that the reflection of her child's sentiments gets into her mind, but very often with such prismatic changes, and oblique catchings of the light, that even sympathy goes wrong. A Country Gentleman and his Family Closely and compactly crowded, they become prismatic by mutual pressure, and attain sometimes the height of half an inch or more. The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species The colours in the rainbow have the same proportional breadth as the spaces in the prismatic spectrum. The Rain Cloud or, An Account of the Nature, Properties, Dangers and Uses of Rain in Various Parts of the World This chromatic style had been anticipated by Chopin whose use of the harmonic series in those prismatic, spray-like groups of superadded tones is such a striking feature in his pianoforte works. Music: An Art and a Language Falling showers here and there softened and veiled the strong light and shade, relieved by the prismatic hues of a rainbow. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia They never blended their colours, and had no sense of the harmony of prismatic gradations, or the melting of one tint into another; each was worked up to a hard and fast edge line. Needlework As Art The mist was especially interesting because in sunlight it displayed prismatic colorings. The Fifth-Dimension Tube All we require, therefore, to form a rainbow, is a great number of transparent bodies capable of forming a great number of prismatic spectra from the light of the sun.” The Rain Cloud or, An Account of the Nature, Properties, Dangers and Uses of Rain in Various Parts of the World It has for its framework a fibro-cartilage, irregular in shape, thick, nearly prismatic at its base, and thin anteriorly where it is covered by the conjunctiva; behind, it is loosely attached to a fatty cushion. Special Report on Diseases of Cattle What prismatic effect, brighter than the outdoor desert sunshine is hard to imagine, but a large shining object close at hand would be pretty terrifying. The Four-Faced Visitors of Ezekiel This is a merciful arrangement; for we are not fitted to live in a prismatic display, any more than in a continuity of lightning flashes. Needlework As Art The unfamiliar stars above shone bright and very near as Tommy’s ship, leading, winged noiselessly up and down and straight away from the play of prismatic lights above the city. The Fifth-Dimension Tube The brilliant colours of the solar rainbow are p. 150frequently produced by the clouds without any prismatic arrangement. The Rain Cloud or, An Account of the Nature, Properties, Dangers and Uses of Rain in Various Parts of the World I also discovered that the webs of the little spiders in the road, when saturated with moisture, as they were from the early fog this morning, exhibit prismatic tints. Under the Maples Its upper surface gleamed with elusive prismatic colors. Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 The sun was painted over a white ground with transparent glazings of the primary colors laid and dried separately, thus combining the colors prismatically to produce white light. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 Thousands of greenish tints are distinguishable, shading from a light yellowish tinge to a deep prismatic blue, while occasionally a streak of bright red or a touch of pure white lends a striking contrast. The Beauties of the State of Washington A Book for Tourists Passing a gasworks perhaps you may have noticed that the surface of the water in the ditch by the roadside bears a greenish scum, a pale prismatic scum; this is the colour-box of modern landscape. Amaryllis at the Fair Those persons who report beholding a great display of prismatic effects in the foliage of trees, or in the grass after a shower, are not to be credited. Under the Maples Two or three words exchanged without much thought—one figure disappearing out of the landscape—and, lo! all the prismatic colours have faded from the horizon, and blank daylight glares upon startled eyes! The Doctor's Family This substance resembles opal in its consistency, except that it is white and transparent and does not possess prismatic colours like imprisoned rainbows. The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' Capri is the idyllic island of prismatic light and shade, of gay and joyous life. Italy, the Magic Land Sporangia at first cylindric, with the apex convex and the wall entire; soon, by mutual pressure, they become prismatic and the lateral faces disappear, leaving the edges and the apex permanent. The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio You may see the drops glistening in the sun like glass beads, but they will not exhibit prismatic tints. Under the Maples The column rests upon a prismatic support, from which protrude four prows, and the pedestal of the whole is in the shape of a tomb, with an Egyptian-like appearance. Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose It was perfect in shape, and the brilliant prismatic colours were most distinctly marked. The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' Thus the boy had three prismatic colors for his use. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History Then a mathematically precise ring of prismatic reflections showed me that the top third of the ball was a separate piece, fitting conically down like the tapered glass stopper of a monstrous perfume bottle. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 Change your position, and you may see another, but never a great display of prismatic tints at one time. Under the Maples The firelight played on her hair, glowing in it prismatically. Louisiana Lou A Western Story “This, at any rate, will be proof against bad luck,” she said, as she undid the case, and drew out a prismatic compass. The Tale of Timber Town He painted the starry sky, the sunset clouds, and the purple hills in words of prismatic hue and his rapturous eloquence held us rigid. A Son of the Middle Border The large halo, more rarely seen, of angular radius 22°·35, is due to another cause again, and is a prismatic effect, although it exhibits hardly any colour. Pioneers of Science The occasional prismatic flash of a leaping trout in the deeper pools caught their eyes. Heart of the Blue Ridge Above this figure, which beckoned him on, and after which the raft drifted faster and faster, was a halo of sparkling hair, which caught and broke up the light into prismatic colors. Louisiana Lou A Western Story Kepler observed this star, and described it as ‘sparkling like a diamond with prismatic tints.’ The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' We know the last prismatic benedictions of the sun it means to hide from us—the strange gleams of despairing light on the other clouds—clouds that are not in it, mere outsiders or spectators. Somehow Good The roofs are for the most part of earthen tiles, imburnt with strong prismatic colors, and shining like the inner surfaces of abalone shells. The Land of Thor The use of the prismatic camera was baffled by the anomalous scarcity of prominences. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition The diamond, of course, is easy to tell, not by the kind of yellow that it displays, for it varies greatly in that respect, but rather by its prismatic play blended with the intrinsic color. A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public It was on the eleventh day that we really saw Terra in its full prismatic glory. Walls of Acid Others, again, rested along the sloping sides of the butte—also of prismatic shapes, with sides overhanging. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness The grim, jagged rocks, blackened and rifted with fire, make a strange contrast with the delicate prismatic colors of the rainbows, and their sharp and rugged outline with the soft, ever-changing clouds of spray. The Land of Thor Very few bright lines besides those of hydrogen and coronium, and apparently no dark ones, stood out from the prismatic background. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition Triplets and doublets too may be exposed by dipping them sidewise into oil, thus removing the prismatic refraction almost completely, as the oil has about the same refractive index as the stone. A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public In many of the ancient volcanoes, we find the emitted streams are arranged in prismatic forms, constituting basalt, and frequently passing into what under other circumstances would be styled trap by the Wernerians. The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 The prismatic colours which presented themselves as the torches flashed on the surface of the ice were beautifully brilliant. The Mines and its Wonders The polish of it caught and cast back the sunlight in prismatic circles on the scoured deal table. Merry-Garden and Other Stories The heat contained in the diffraction spectrum is, with equal dispersions, barely one-tenth of that in the prismatic spectrum. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition On the clouds of vapour below us we saw our shadows projected, of giant proportions, and each person saw his own shadow surrounded by a bright circle of prismatic colours. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville Now, we know that when streams of lava enter the sea, they spontaneously assume the prismatic structure. The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 Dull, prismatic fires glowed upon the distant clouds—dawn-jewels laid upon the breast of Night. Master of the Vineyard Another characteristic of this group of rocks is the perfection with which many of them show prismatic or columnar jointing, a structure often called "basaltic jointing." Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Here both components shine, though with a different quality of light, one giving a pure solar spectrum, the other claiming prismatic affinity with Procyon. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition And now, by some miracle, here were the blossoms of Martin’s raising, their prismatic tints exquisite as a sunset. The Wall Between Rippling conduits edge pillared courts and cloistered arcades, resplendent with frieze and cornice of blue and scarlet, a central fountain falling in prismatic showers over a sacred pond of golden carp. Through the Malay Archipelago Purple dawns and prismatic sunsets, crystalline noons and starry midnights slowly but surely were woven in. Master of the Vineyard The crystals of prismatic habit represented in figs. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Thus prismatic analysis has no power to identify individual kinds of matter, except when they present themselves as glowing vapours. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition They are as characteristic of the sunlight as the prismatic colours themselves, and are full of interest and information with regard to the sun. The Story of the Heavens In form it is somewhat prismatic, or irregularly triangular, with its angles very rounded. Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 Kurt looked on helplessly, perplexed by this last mood of his prismatic young prisoner. Penny of Top Hill Trail "What we really want," said my brother-in-law, "is a prismatic compass." Jonah and Co. The prismatic flutings of the one, and the broader zones of the other, are as if stereotyped—they undergo, in their fundamental outlines, no modification, though varying in relative intensity from star to star. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition Necessarily, I carried a great many compasses, which included prismatic, luminous, floating, and pocket compasses. An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet The bow, of beautifully distinct prismatic colours, formed about two-thirds of a circle, the extremities of which appeared to rest on the lower portion of the mountain. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 The fruits are from three to four inches long, generally prismatic, as they grow thickly on the stem, and lie one over another. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests I suppose it to be the most savage and natural of notions about Deity; a prismatic idol-shape of Him, rude as a triangular log, as a trefoil grass. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing Literally stewing, the subaltern threw himself flat on the ground under the slight shadow of a dried thorn bush, and waited, at intervals sweeping the bare outlines of the kopje with his prismatic glasses. Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force Setting a prismatic compass in position upon the sill of one of the glazeless windows, Ramblethorne took a careful bearing in a seaward direction. The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War In the centre of this incomplete circle, there was described a luminous disc, surrounded by the prismatic colours displayed in concentric rings. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 And then, after a succession of eventful years, a political revolution will hurl the Catholic superstructure to the earth, and the prismatic bow of promise will span the heavens. A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse Moving slowly through the pools are many 137 beautiful creatures, some so evanescent that they are only discoverable by the faint shadows which they cast on the bottom, others suggest animated spheres of prismatic sunlight. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year The white sunbeam formed a circular image on the opposite wall, but the prismatic colors formed an image five times as long as it was broad. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History At his right hand was the wireless transmitter, together with a pair of prismatic glasses and map. The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War There had been rain, and then warmth, and October had caught all the prismatic colors of the drops of water, and was giving them forth with Southern prodigality. How to Cook Husbands And the winged insects of his power Gone—when they see the tempests lower: Like to the bubble, full and fair, With hues prismatic, puffed with air. Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) The sweep of Aristide’s arm produced prismatic chaos among a tray-full of drinks which the waiter was bringing to the family party at the next table. The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol At the request of the Royal Society, he published in the "Transactions" an account of his optical discoveries, and proved that white light is a compound of seven prismatic colors. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History Meanwhile, Tatum had been reading a round of angles with the prismatic compass. The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America Indigo.—The violet-blue color of the spectrum, extending, according to Helmholtz, from G two-thirds of the way to F in the prismatic spectrum. A Color Notation A measured color system, based on the three qualities Hue, Value and Chroma My next sister, Saccharine, was of a filmy and prismatic beauty that was sufficient evidence of her Cohltar origin—our mother, of course, was a Cohltar. Marge Askinforit At the distant lake, some kind of larger structure lifted tall towers, shining with prismatic glitter, a city of strange appearance. Valley of the Croen The sugar-cane, like all other vegetables, contains a certain quantity of liquid, in which the sugar is held in a state of solution; if this is removed, prismatic crystals immediately form. Adventures of a Young Naturalist The prismatic space or solid raised out on the weather side by the inclination of the ship. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. The playing colors of his robe formed themselves into a prismatic mist of dewy light: he stood for an instant veiled with them as with the belt of a broad rainbow. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Officers carried revolvers, field glasses, prismatic compass, and various other extras. The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula Both arches of the bow are seldom entirely elicited, but the interior segment is perfect, and its prismatic hues are extremely glowing and vivid. The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) He gives Raphael a white robe as symbolic of universal genius, "for as white light contains the seven prismatic colours, so does Raphael's art unite all the qualities we gaze on with wonder." Overbeck Also, an atmospheric effect of prismatic colours, said likewise to indicate bad weather if seen to leeward. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Beams of colored light swung majestically, with prismatic effects through the great, flattened, shimmering ovoid of water, while Lucette's motions completed a beautiful legend... The Planet Strappers These are the primary colors, and it is necessary when thinking color to bear these prismatic colors in mind as standards. Color Value He had closed the harbor, by destroying the costly prismatic lenses in the light-houses, and by withdrawing the warning light-ship from Rattlesnake Shoal. Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61 It is extremely soluble in water, and can be obtained in large transparent prismatic crystals, as in common sugar-candy. Elements of Agricultural Chemistry It appears opposite to the sun, and is usually broad and white, but sometimes assumes the prismatic colours. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. The prismatic colors gleamed over it, as if on a surface of mother-of-pearl, page 422. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide Light, with all its prismatic varieties, seems to have been the chief object of his studies; individuality of form or color he was wholly indifferent to. A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture It is equally remarkable for the glowing radiance of its fearful beauty, displaying as it does, when gliding amid the sunshine, all the prismatic colours. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America We need all the seven prismatic tints to make the perfect white light. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John The prismatic solid carried under water on the lee-side of a ship by its inclination.—Centre of immersion, the mean centre of the part immersed. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. These are the seven primary or prismatic colours. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 The prose light of common day is breaking into prismatic rays. Emmy Lou Her Book and Heart Through the bay-window she could see the crystal chandeliers glittering with prismatic light, the slender gilded chairs, the cabinets and canapés, golden, backed with tapestry; and everywhere massed banks of ferns and lilies. Lorraine A romance And all this gorgeousness of coloring was reflected in the lake, whose waters seemed dyed with all the prismatic hues of the rainbow. Cruel As The Grave Those transient prismatic breaks which occur in thick mists, and considered good symptoms of the weather clearing. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. By prismatic analysis Sir William Herschel separate the luminous from the non-luminous rays of the sun, and he also sought to render the obscure rays visible by concentration. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 These objects to an eye at ° might all melt into one another, as stars are confluent which modern astronomy has prismatically split. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 The edges of the snow everywhere were illumined with the prismatic rays in proper order. A Little Girl in Old Boston Day was broadening over the mountains, and bringing out a thousand prismatic colors from the autumn foliage of the trees, gemmed now with the rain drops that had fallen during the night. Cruel As The Grave It may be explained as the clearing of the upper stratum, permitting the sun's rays to exhibit at the horizon prismatic colours; hence "sun-gall." The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. At one end of this spectrum we have red light, at the other, violet; and between those extremes lie the other prismatic colours. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Nevertheless they are quite sufficient to interfere with and refract the light rays and to split them up prismatically. The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones Quivering on the tops of the timber, the horizontal sunbeams created, in their refraction, brilliant prismatic colorings, and filled the air with motes like golden dust. Rookwood Romance has not failed to endeavor to illuminate with her prismatic lantern the darkness of those nine mysterious years. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III He went down and was merely a bump in the flowing river of prismatic colorings which swarmed after the racing chief justice. Attention Saint Patrick By such prismatic analysis Dr. Draper has shown, that when the platinum wire first begins to glow, the light emitted is sensibly red. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 How the mild lamplight was shivered into a thousand prismatic arrows, as it fell upon a vast rose-diamond that glittered in the case! Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes Mystic-Humorous Stories How the mild lamplight was shivered into a thousand prismatic arrows as it fell upon a vast rose-diamond that glittered in the case! The Diamond Lens Another night we saw a bright crescent, and from it feathery-edged rays, of a pale orange colour, branched off in every direction, while across it a succession of the prismatic colours appeared rapidly to flit. Old Jack The rain left on it when the sun came up, Dyed the vast cloth with all prismatic hues, And made it glitter like the silken sail Of Cleopatra's barge. Stories in Verse Iridescent: a surface which reflects the prismatic hues. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology In another minute, nevertheless, I reopened my eyes, for through my eyelashes I still beheld her, all sparkling with prismatic colours, and surrounded with such a penumbra as one beholds in gazing at the sun. Clarimonde The whole body of the vessel was frosted by the snow into the glassy aspect of the spars and rigging, and the sunshine striking down made a beautiful prismatic picture of the silent ship. The Frozen Pirate The transverse thread is beaten firmly home by means of a heavy prismatic piece of wood. In the Forbidden Land The spray caught the sun and the prismatic colors added to the scene. Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History Iridicolor: any color so broken up as to reflect the prismatic hues. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology I saw a short man, bald headed, with frog eyes peering at us from behind thick prismatic glasses. The Winged Men of Orcon A Complete Novelette Here and there the rocks shone prismatically as though some flying rainbow had shivered itself upon them and lay broken. The Frozen Pirate About the limp body and sprawling hands clung the delicate prismatic tapestry of the spiders. The Californians The prismatic colours of a fashionable school of art may stain them. Practical Mysticism A Little Book for Normal People Every point seemed a diamond; every edge sent forth a gleam of light, and many of the masses reflected the rich prismatic colours of the rainbow. The World of Ice As they passed over the Plateau the sun poured floods of light on the snow, from the little crystals of which it shone with prismatic colours, as though the place had been strewn with diamonds. Rivers of Ice From every rope, from the yards forward, from the rails, from whatever water could run in a stream, hung glorious ice-pendants of prismatic splendour. The Frozen Pirate It was composed of ice, which, wherever the snow had failed to lodge, appeared hard, transparent, and prismatic in the rays of the sun. Adrift in the Ice-Fields The Adari well is one of the great sights of Bahrein, being a deep basin of water 22 yards wide by 40 long, beautifully clear, and full of prismatic colours. Southern Arabia Its body is brightly tinted with all the prismatic colours; and sometimes it is to be seen coiled round the branches of a tree, ready to strike its prey. On the Banks of the Amazon About three hundred yards beyond the last sentinel the trio paused, and stood listening and gazing as far as they could across a rock chamber whose sides glittered with double prismatic crystals. The Black Tor A Tale of the Reign of James the First Gourlay figured it, twenty years ago, by placing the word in capitals on the arch formed by the prismatic hues of the cloud-spray of Niagara. Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2 He has placed himself again for judgment before her "blank pure soul, alike the source and tomb of that prismatic glow." Browning's Heroines Snails' eggs are nearly white and semi-transparent; the empty shells of young snails are very lovely when placed in a good microscope: the polariscope bringing out their exquisite prismatic tints. Wild Nature Won By Kindness This magnificent spectacle continued for a full hour with ever-increasing brilliancy, suffusing sea and land with a quivering glow of prismatic light, and imparting an aspect of magic, unearthly, indescribable beauty to the scene. The Log of the Flying Fish A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure Above His head is the choir of Seraphim, painted in prismatic colours, and reflected in the "sea of glass before the throne." Ely Cathedral Sisley and Pissarro, Vignon, Seurat, and Robinson were thinking out a way to legitimize the new fantastic craze for prismatic violence, and they found it in the direct consideration for the fact. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets Yellow is naturally associated with red in transient and prismatic colours, and is the principal power with it in representing the effects of warmth, heat, and fire. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists Akin in a measure to certain similar stories by Jeannette Marks, they have the same prismatic quality of brilliance and impermanence. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story A flash of prismatic color had caught the girl's eye, and, one transparent structure thus revealed to her sight, there had burst into view a city of crystal. Spacehounds of IPC Newton discovered the prismatic colors of light, and explained the phenomenon by the emission theory. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Abdomen with a fine prismatic lustre, closely and strongly punctured towards the apex and at the extreme base, the second segment and the middle of the third with only a few very fine scattered punctures. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology It is the nearest approach to a perfect yellow in existence, and more closely resembles the purity of the prismatic spectrum than any other artificial colour. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists From its lofty summit issues forth a dome of water, which separates, and falls in prismatic showers into a spacious basin beneath. Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland It is the softest of the prismatic colors, and its very name carries us in thought to the modest sweet flower which is Flora's emblem of humility. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy A small table had been placed in the sun near the window, and was covered with dazzling white linen, polished silver, and cut glass, which, catching the morning beams, reflected a prismatic riot of colors. The Seventh Noon Abdomen beautifully prismatic; the first and three following segments with a yellow fascia on their apical margins, the second and two following much attenuated in the middle, or the fourth interrupted. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology They have this advantage, moreover, that they possess the property of ultramarine of improving in hue by time—their tendency being to their own specific prismatic red colour. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists The French epic language is not distinguished and made difficult in this way; it is "not prismatic but diaphanous." Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature From this little synopsis of the effects and uses of the prismatic colors, we shall be enabled the better to understand both the ancient and modern popular ideas as to colors as representatives and correspondences. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy For a flat, a prismatic or cylindrical volume may be taken to represent the unit weight. The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel I dwell on these halcyon days with Miss Plinlimmon because, as they were the last I spent at the Genevan Hospital, so they soften all my recollections of it with their own gentle prismatic haze. The Adventures of Harry Revel When dry, it can be changed by going over it with a slight wash of vermilion or light red, whereby a prismatic character is realized. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists She idealized all he did, and the entire summer and the wide landscape seemed filled with prismatic colors. Wayside Courtships Is the emblem of light, every white ray of light containing all the prismatic colors; and as it symbolizes innocence and purity, it is the color must appropriate for clothing infants, brides, and the dead. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy The main cause of this change being, that the prismatic cloud itself is always in rapid, and generally in fluctuating motion. The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century Two Lectures delivered at the London Institution February 4th and 11th, 1884 I am growing weary, weary of all this music, opiate music, prismatic music, "dreary music"—as Schumann himself called his early stuff—and the somber peristaltic music of his "lonesome, latter years." Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques I used the word "prismatic" just now of the schools of Crystal, as being iridescent. Lectures on Landscape Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871 Attached to the staff of the commander as engineer and topographical officer, he had ridden at will on the flanks of the column, a single orderly his sole attendant, a prismatic compass his only instrument. To The Front A Sequel to Cadet Days Crystals of calcite are extremely varied in form, but, as a rule, they may be referred to four distinct habits, namely: rhombohedral, prismatic, scalenohedral and tabular. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" The prismatic colors, I told you, were simply impossible to paint; these, which are transmitted colors, can indeed be suggested, but no more. The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century Two Lectures delivered at the London Institution February 4th and 11th, 1884 Those violet bubbles of prismatic light that the Sarmatian composer blows for us are too fragile, too intangible, too spirit-haunted to be played. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques How it glistened and sparkled; and that too with all the prismatic colours! The Story of a Dewdrop The crystals are usually small and are prismatic or acicular in habit; they have a perfect cleavage parallel to the face lettered a in the adjoining figure. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" The crystal of prismatic habit shown in fig. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Such mist, however, only becomes prismatic as common rain does, when the sun is behind the spectator, while prismatic clouds are, on the contrary, always between the spectator and the sun. The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century Two Lectures delivered at the London Institution February 4th and 11th, 1884 In an orchestra a full chord fortissimo is interesting because it may be scored in the most prismatic manner. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques The instrumental coloring is prismatic, all the registers of the strings being utilized with great deftness. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Thicker crystals of prismatic, rather than tabular, habit and of a rich red colour combined with considerable transparency and brilliancy are found in the gold-washings of the Sanarka river in the southern Urals. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Here a fountain, perfectly formed with Ionic and Doric columns, was reflecting a thousand prismatic hues from the diamond-like stalactites which had attached themselves to its crest. Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Then the furnace was shut and again her fair outlines were left to the imagination, except for the prismatic twinkle and glow of her cabin lights. Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi |
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