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Does your manic pixie dream girl complex fantasize about an ethereal-looking stranger mesmerized in reverie as they gaze upon the dapples of fluorescent Tom Bradley terminal lights reflecting off this sumptuously swamp-hued fabric?

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2024

I like the little dapples of light, too.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 29, 2023

More open compositions such as “Inlet” neatly mirror sky and water, but Dellario seems most at home under tree cover, where light dapples rather than glares.

From Washington Post • Aug. 26, 2022

Her voice shines like dapples of pale moonlight, and is especially arresting in moments of ambling melancholy.

From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2021

As she reaches for it, she watches the way the light slips through the heavy pine needles, dapples everything with sweet September light .

From "Brown Girl Dreaming" by Jacqueline Woodson