Sentence examples for misty veil from inspiring English sources

Turner caught the misty veil created by the humidity in the air that gives the ruined castle an eerie lightness.

In successive shots, a bright tendril snakes south along the Jersey Shore and by noon spreads into a misty veil, giving no hint of the calamity below.

Everywhere here, a misty veil of exoticism and strangeness clouds the presentation of the Q'ero, and in many ways is the secret of the work's allure.

Everywhere here, a misty veil of exoticism clouds the presentation of the Q'ero and in many ways is the secret of the work's allure.

No painter ever did that more enthusiastically than Turner, who is said to have cried out on his deathbed: "The sun is god!" This rapturous example of Turner at his most abstract and suggestive is a gold and bronze storm of light, the sun illuminating the spray of a waterfall, the atmosphere a misty veil of colour.

The paint oxidised into misty veils or, when his female associates peed, murky puddles.

The misty, grey veil was, in the meantime, being analysed.

That's when the Langhe turns magical: a misty, shimmering veil envelops the hills and suffocates all sounds, except the cries of owls.

Dust, 'the misty, grey veil of time,' which is woven without ceasing in the ever-moving loom of the passing hours, accumulates in every house, in spite of all the efforts of brooms and brushes".

("The sinew of life is made of dreams, passion, hope — ethereal and misty as a veil, a scrim, the Milky Way, but strong threads all the same").

To me it smacks of unicorns and rainbows and tinkly silver bells, and lady authoresses (is that a word?) draped with gauzy veils gazing out at misty sunsets, and I'm not happy with that.