The cinematographer, Barry Sonnenfeld, works in ghouls' colors — thick, dirty greens, magentas, and sulfurous yellows.
Artillery shells crash into ancient villages, sending thick dirty plumes of smoke into the air.
Then there was a particularly splendid episode of The Outer Limits set in England, where thick, dirty-faced northern miner David McCallum is "evolved" into a higher being by a mad scientist.
Also, not only does he have the looks and charisma of a rock star, with his thick, dirty-blond hair, dreamy half-smile and debonair blue suit, but he comes across as devastatingly soulful.
In the first feminist article she dared sign with her own name, Louise Otto, a German, built on the work of Charles Fourier, a French social theorist, quoting his dictum that "by the position which women hold in a land, you can see whether the air of a state is thick with dirty fog or free and clear".
At the bar, the young sons of Burma's elite are buying bottles of Jack Daniel's and Johnnie Walker with thick wads of dirty kyat notes.
An article last Sunday about Salt Lake City's struggle with poor air quality misstated details of the atmospheric inversions during the winter months that lead to a thick fog of dirty air cloaking the region.
The oil industry is trying to change the name of tar sands to "oil sands," and for good reason: "tar sands" polls badly, because the term leads people to picture something dirty, thick and toxic.
For the last few years, the area has been grappling with one of the nation's most vexing pollution problems, where atmospheric inversions during the winter months lead to a thick fog of dirty air cloaking the region.
The word unkempt has appeared in 182 New York Times articles in the past year, including on July 12 in the India Ink blog post "In Kerala, Rehabilitated Killer Nurtures Mentally Challenged" by Shevlin Sebastian: One morning in 1997, while Mr. Mathew was wandering about, he spotted a deranged man with unkempt hair, a thick beard and dirty clothes.
Continuing his long, low tones, he turned on an oscillator box and moved over to three small machines on a desk: they were airSynths, made by Alesis, sort of digital theremins with more options, and they produced dirty, thick, distorted, guitarlike tones.
