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Others belie their weighty payloads with a veil-like fluttering, shunning complex characters and precise details in favor of less fixable quantities like mood, movement and texture.

From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2018

"The idea was to create something ephemeral and veil-like," says architect Michael Gabellini, "so the windows aren’t just apertures but also offer a theatrical effect."

From Architectural Digest • Sep. 30, 2014

Sometimes his veil-like layers of images can almost be mistaken for work by the German artist Sigmar Polke, who laid much of the groundwork for 1980s Neo-Expressionism.

From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2010

Distance merged the leafless trees into veil-like masses of dove browns and grays where shadows of violet lurked and deepened.

From The Portal of Dreams by Buck, Charles Neville

It curled, then bent with the wind and slowly dissolved in a long, thin veil-like streak.

From The Adventures of the U-202 An Actual Narrative by Spiegel, E.