The Bog Girl floated, thin as a dress, on the mattress.
At dinner parties put one jug on the table with these long, translucent strips of cucumber, and another jug floating with thin slices of lemon.
"Stranger still are the colours escaping from these paintings," I wrote at the time, "imaginary colours, greens that come and go, yellows floating in thin air, flying across or shooting out like flames from the surface of a canvas".
A LAB ON A MISSION A shimmering mesh structure floating on thin carbon-fiber columns — what the architects of Atelier Bow-Wow of Tokyo describe as their traveling "toolbox" — will occupy an empty site at 33 East First Street in the East Village from Aug. 3 through Oct. 16.
On the water below tiny swimmers look as if they're floating in thin air, arms and legs swinging, making ripples in something invisible.
It has a bezel less than a quarter of an inch thick, and a new wave-inspired stand that makes the TV look like it's floating in thin air.
Do you recall the scene from Minority Report where Tom Cruise is pressing laser buttons that appear to be floating in thin air?
Using a clear "synthetic" mirror hinged at an angle, the Holocube HC Tablet reflects the media from the iPad, creating the illusion that it's floating in thin air.
EM grids were prepared by floating a thin layer of continuous carbon over a 400-mesh copper grid (Electron Microscopy Sciences, Hatfield, PA) using a custom-made carbon-floating device.
The obvious explanation is that slow germinators have thicker husks than fast germinators, and scientific analysis may yet reveal other physiological or biochemical factors, but thick husk has already been attributed to natural selection for dispersal by floating and thin husk to domestic selection and dissemination of coconuts with increased water content (Harries 1978).
