Sentence examples for sheer light from inspiring English sources

Sheer, light and flattering shades.

DiorShow Powder provides a "very sheer, light luminosity," Dubroff says.

The black jazz combos in the mould of the Louis Lester Band that toured Britain in the early 30s functioned primarily as novelty acts; sheer light entertainment.

In his thirties, the water becomes "ocean's surpliced choirs / entering its nave, to a censer / of swung mist," or else "this sheer light, this clear / infinite, boring, paradisal sea".

Most were shot in the same tight studio space, with minor changes in decor from picture to picture: a heavy floral-print backdrop covers a wall, or is pulled back, or replaced by a sheer light curtain.

She feels momentarily rejuvenated in these radiant rooms, "whose windows face north and south, 20 feet of sheer light," and pries her balky eyelids open long enough to arrange her sweaters on a shelf chromatically, "from white to black through all the misty colors of gray and pink and blue and lavender and olive".

Line eyes with the smoky color and dust the sheer, lighter color all over in the summer; put the dark color on lids and highlight with the lighter color in the fall ($24 each at smashbox.com).

"These initial images demonstrate the sheer light-gathering power of this instrument," says Peter Martinez, one of the 15 South African astronomers who are working on the project at the South African Astronomical Observatory in Cape Town.

Existing ground-based telescopes, and various proposed Extremely Large Telescopes, can exceed the HST in terms of sheer light-gathering power and diffraction limit due to larger mirrors, but other factors affect telescopes.

A sheer, light-colored scarf you can use to block the sun or wind.

What kept these lipsticks from looking dated is that they tended to be stains, not thick creams or dry mattes, with a sheerer, lighter texture than one would traditionally associate with such intense hues.