Sentence examples for Tinting from inspiring English sources

He needs no caricaturist to make him look evil, though tinting his flesh (green on a recent cover of The Economist, red and yellow on the latest Newsweek) augments his scariness nicely.

They range from high-rise modernist residential buildings, with airy glass-walled apartments overlooking Lake Michigan, to Mies's last office design for the IBM building which varied his well-known "glass box" by tinting the windows bronze.

This can be done by reducing the light transmission or shading coefficient of the glass by integrally tinting it in various colours; grey, bronze, and green are common tints.

Speaking to KOB4 News, Mr Abar said tinting the drug is an attempt by distributors to brand or advertise their products.

Monochrome stock was created by "tinting" the film base or "toning" the emulsion (by bathing the film in chemical salts).

This was then coloured with transparent washes of local hues, a technique similar to that of colour tinting a black-and-white photograph.

Reactive dye, any of a class of highly coloured organic substances, primarily used for tinting textiles, that attach themselves to their substrates by a chemical reaction that forms a covalent bond between the molecule of dye and that of the fibre.

But nostalgia has a habit of rose-tinting the past, and from the start, the Specials were a more complicated and awkward proposition than their latterday image suggests.

Perhaps some rose-tinting has been necessary to repackage these stories as popular entertainment.

Forget the glamorous connotations of such a place, any notions of PR-fuelled rose-tinting of my critical faculties, because they have no influence.

And that he is fortunate in working for grand houses like the Opéra Garnier and the Comédie-Française that allow him to use couture quality fabrics and do hand-tinting and embroideries — but always with the proviso that the dancers have freedom of movement and that sweat-drenched costumes can be easily cleaned.