Ms. Chapman is the designer behind the five-year-old fashion label, Marchesa, famous for clinging diaphanously to the hips of red carpet-walkers such as Sienna Miller, Scarlett Johansen and Penelope Cruz among a litany of other A-listers. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Stories are embedded within stories like Russian dolls, encompassing every narrative genre from instructive fable to swashbuckling adventure to diaphanously veiled pornography. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The faceted walls dimmed; in front of me they melted, diaphanously, like a gelatinous wall in a blast of flame; through their vanishing, under the torrent of driving light, the unthinkable, impalpable tornado, I began to move, slowly — then ever more swiftly! ❋ Unknown (2004)
This woman, diaphanously cloaked and sensu-ously madeup, represented an entirely more complex challenge. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (2004)
"Oh, all of it," she said, and lifted her book, showing a cover with a familiar castle and a diaphanously attired princess. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Daphne and I both wore gossamer white, and pretended we were naiads or is it dryads? floating diaphanously about. ❋ Deborah Crombie (1997)
And that's why your legends always give fairies butterfly wings instead of beetle wings which are much more diaphanously beautiful. ❋ Asimov, Isaac (1990)
It featured a delicate-looking Conan with a diaphanously draped damsel throwing her arms around his neck as he warded off a flying attacker with an ineffectual knife. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (1989)
Color developed in the air, swirling diaphanously. ❋ Anthony, Piers (1988)
Bee likes to make a dramatic entrance, and often relates in tones of positive awe how she once saw a Frenchwoman in an opera-cloak composed entirely of white tulle run the whole length of the Grand Opera House in Paris in order to make the tulle, which was cut to resemble wings, float out diaphanously behind her. ❋ Lilian Bell (N/A)
Her hair hung down her back like a girl's, and the white dressing-gown which floated diaphanously about her was unexpectedly reminiscent of Bond Street. ❋ Oppenheim, E. Phillips (1920)
The faceted walls dimmed; in front of me they melted, diaphanously, like a gelatinous wall in a blast of flame; through their vanishing, under the torrent of driving light, the unthinkable, impalpable tornado, I began to move, slowly -- then ever more swiftly! ❋ Unknown (1919)
The story of the summarily interrupted revel in Marietta had, of course, leaked out in detail -- "Muriel doesn't mean to tell every one she knows," said Gloria to Anthony, "but she thinks every one she tells is the only one she's going to tell" -- and, diaphanously veiled, the tale had been given a conspicuous place in Town Tattle. ❋ Unknown (1918)
Durham, to his alarm-clock -- even to a rather shocking collection of pictures of chorus-girls and diaphanously-clad dancers which was pasted inside the double drawer on the right side of the desk. ❋ Sinclair Lewis (1918)
Soon after five o'clock there was a brilliant crowd wandering and resting in the pleasant spaces; and Ethel, wearing a diaphanously white robe and carrying a rush basket full of white carnations, was moving among them distributing the flowers. ❋ Unknown (1906)
"For heaven's sake, what are you giggling at?" snapped the longest, slimmest, most abnormal dryad, diaphanously draped in yellow, when she could gasp out an intelligible sentence after an exhausting bout of agony. ❋ Unknown (1901)
The men swayed, drew back for another thrust, and they were suddenly aware of a mist-like figure between them, a figure draped in white, lightly, diaphanously. ❋ Cyrus Townsend Brady (1890)
[Benedict] and [Samantha] were dressed very diaphanous at their [wedding]. ❋ ShingleShite (2017)
