It floats, pure glowing anathema, above the head of the only woman in the picture, Jackie Kennedy, her pink-suited arm round her dying husband in the motorcade.
Aqua water outlined the seven-eighths of ice below the surface, and small, clear bits -- frozen rain trapped maybe thousands of years ago and now freed -- float pure and sweet around us, like crystals in the sun.
The movie is a cornucopia of references and recognitions, a self-circling film in which the winks and nods of names and faces, situations and analogies, anchor the fiction and keep it from floating into pure fantasy.
Warhol's photographs show the cult of celebrity in all its glory as figures whose influences live on today are captured as nearly divine figures floating in pure white.
Even at her most explicit, Ryan never gets more confessional than "A Plain Ordinary Steel Needle Can Float on Pure Water" (a factoid credited to "Ripley's"): It's a treat to see water so rubbery, a needle so peaceful, the point encased in the tenderest dimple.
Margaret Price, the Welsh soprano who brought a voice of pure, floating richness to lieder and the operas of Mozart and Verdi, died on Friday in Wales.
Ivory, a P&G-branded soap, traces its serendipitous history back to 1879, when James Gamble, son of the founder and a trained chemist, accidentally cooked up an unusually pure, floating soap in his laboratory.Commodity prices have risen sharply recently, pushing up the cost of the foodstuffs, chemicals, packaging and energy that go into making the industry's products.
This brutal conjunction of beauty and violence – the remaining columns of the ancient city gold-hued against the leaden plume of destruction floating in the pure blue sky – is an image of sheer fanaticism, unbridled hatred, and the obliteration of everything anyone has ever called civilised.
"It hasn't got the absolute refinement, the pure white, floating elegance of that rather cold masterpiece".
Soon, as he puts it, he is "reduced to nothing more than a kernel of pure awareness floating in the cosmos".
