The twin towers stand in a blue-gray, faraway skyline.
The furnishings in their Manhattan apartment are entirely their own: a chalky blue L-shaped couch, a cream chaise longue, mauve accents, which are complemented nicely, on a foggy New York morning, by the gray-blue skyline.
From the hill in the garden, the city's flattened skyline appears gray and crowded, not particularly inviting compared with the monastery's rambling trees and gardens.
Ducks sat on the icy smooth bay, blacks specks against the gray silhouette of the Atlantic City skyline on the southern horizon.
Slate-gray fog obscured the Hong Kong skyline all weekend, and the rainy weather was sadly well-suited to the gloomy and sodden financial climate in the city.
The Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, the United Nations towers and Trump Tower are great splashes on the skyline, accented by salmon, gray and white apartment buildings.
The heavy smog erased the capital's skylines with a monotonous gray and left buildings just a block or two away hardly discernable.
The crew included a large number of New Yorkers who volunteered for the assignment, and they watched with anticipation as the city skyline emerged from a flat, gray dawn.
One, titled "Smoky City," has great clouds of black, gray and white smoke floating across a skyline with a church, a university and factories.
Instead, the entire skyline was a murky, hazy, ugly gray.
