Example Sentences

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Speeches can be fonts of evocative language, barbs and gauzily veiled messages.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 17, 2023

Jackson’s life has spanned many traumas, but this film mostly recalls them gauzily, and doesn’t argue strongly enough for her triumphs.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2022

Reviewing the film for The Times, Sheri Linden said, “With its gauzily surreal touches, ‘Woodshock’ reflects the Mulleavys’ romantic flair for texture and embellishment.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2017

Even teenagers and college students are capable of looking back gauzily on what they’ve recently grown out of or projecting themselves into the future and retroactively romanticizing where they are right now.

From Slate • Nov. 24, 2015

Her hat, gauzily basking with a pair of long white gloves on one of his arm-chairs, proclaimed that she had come to stay.

From Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story by Beerbohm, Max, Sir