Both the iron columns and the walls were painted in delicate tints.
On the bureau was a doily, a tin box of watercolors, a nautilus shell, and a shallow drawer from a cabinet, in which lay, under glass, several tiny bird's eggs of delicate tints.
A change is noticeable the next year, 1879, in the Annunciation and in the four pictures making up the second series of Pygmalion and the Image; the former of these, one of the simplest and most perfect of the artist's works, is subdued and sober; in the latter a scheme of soft and delicate tints was attempted, not with entire success.
One of the oldest uses, dating back to 1912, of rare-earth oxides is for colouring glass: neodymium oxide (Nd2O3), for colours from a delicate pink tint at low concentrations to a blue-violet at high concentrations, samarium oxide (Sm2O3) for yellow, and erbium oxide (Er2O3) for pale pink.
When Paula West strikes a sultry pose, rolls her eyes and flashes an impish half-smile, the ghost of another woman named West (Mae), tints her thick velvety voice a delicate shade of blue.
Hand-carved, fine-grained, and uncannily fleshlike camphor wood is tinted delicate shades of rose and blue, and embellished with soulful eyes of painted marble.
Without ever having laid eyes on the girl, we feel as if we, too, have savoured "the depth and passion of her earnest glance", the "spot of joy" in her cheek, and "the faint half flush" tinting the delicate skin of her throat.
"People seated before the cafes read their papers by the aid of lights on the opposite side of the way, and yet the most delicate complexions and softest tints in fabrics do not suffer in the white glare of the lamps.
Derived from a print made from the original negative held by the Cinémathèque Française, "The Late Mathias Pascale" receives a magnificent presentation here, with very tight detail and a delicate re-creation of the color tinting that the film (like most silent features) possessed on its first release.
The three works were superbly played: whether tinting and refining the delicate textures of the Debussy, or organising the massive orchestral forces involved in the other works, Salonen was expertly efficient; not a note was out of place, not a single chord unevenly voiced.
I Love Macarons (Chronicle Books, $14.95) by Hisako Ogita, a Japanese pastry chef, barely has recipes at all: it comprises about a dozen basic formulas for tinting, flavoring and filling the delicate French sandwich cookies that rival cupcakes as Trendiest Treat.
