I'm woken, in the steely light of predawn, by a soft voice at my tent flap, telling me tea is ready and there's hot water for shaving.
"Ask me to choose the best time," says Ashdown, "and I would say a late November evening when there's a frost and the mist is gathering down on the levels and you've got that slightly orange but steely light".
There are no awkward police partnerships, troubled backstories, memorable cars or signature clothing, sexy pathologists working through the night in steely cold light or laconic Scandinavians acting alone and mainly on whims.
The carnage that follows was persuasive to this viewer; perhaps there would have been a bit more smoke shrouding the anchorage as the attack got underway, but there's smoke enough, and steely, sulfurous light glinting on the great, impotent naval guns as the battleships list and founder.
The seats of the GS are a bit stiffer and more bolstered than in the LS 430, and on the dash in front of the driver, a trio of back-lit, deep-set gauges glow back at the driver in a sort of light steely blue, in both daylight and at night.
So would Paul Guigou's admirable "View of a Pond at Saint-Paul-les-Durance". Also dated 1863, Guigou's study of blinding light on steely water in barren rocky surroundings is a reminder that this petit maître occasionally rose to astonishing heights.
Suddenly, they were standing in a dark room looking at bright lights and steely eyed producers, no longer discussing itchy wigs outside in the safe sunshine.
The large blue has a lighter, steelier tone than, say, the adonis, which has a shinier, sky-blue hue.
Fluff is everything here, and Ms. Sykes keeps it light yet somehow steely.
Now Matisse was driven to rethink his enterprise in the light of the steely Cubist aesthetic: pictorial space redefined with geometric elements that tilt in and out of an artificial, shallow depth.
Mr. Fan brought steely power and a feather-light touch to Prokofiev's bristling Sonata No. 3.
