I remember wandering in the Alhambra in the evening light, under its stalactite-like stucco ceilings, with the view of Granada and the blue sky seeming to float in the windows, and actually raving loudly, "I'm in heaven!" I haven't been back in years, but I had exactly that sensation in Casa Batlló - and not accidentally.
Early in the novel, an aging Levis hears his music floating in the window from a nearby social club.
"There are thousands -- thousands upon thousands -- of advertisers that are buying new-media digital components to marketing programs," Mr. Rogers said, the drizzle and low clouds floating in the window behind him giving his words a mystical air.
This one, entitled "Lovers," shows Helga in the full ripeness of feminine beauty being pursued by the hand of an older man, presumably Wyeth's, with old Andy's hand coming at her in the form of a withered leaf floating in the window.
"Here I am, sitting in a tin can/far above the world," sings Hadfield, looking soulfully into the camera as our big blue planet floats past in the window.
Personal data is also engraved, as is a "ghost image," a small, second portrait of the driver that will float in a transparent window and will be visible from the front and the back.
Create, love, live and let perfection float out of the window.
But in the view from the altar toward the entrance -- a vast span of more than 500 feet -- the cathedral's huge rose window seems to float in the murky gloom.
Text appears in what they call the "redicle": a rectangular window designed to float in the upper portion of an electronic screen, inside which up to thirteen letters at a time strobe into visibility.
He can also be funny (a transfer of Santa Claus stuck to a window seems to float in the sky beyond); macabre (an arm holds up a paper target in a shooting range, the well-grouped bullet holes piercing the silhouetted head); and formally reserved (rolls of printed fabric, depicting a bucolic pattern of fox-hunters).
