Stippled

Lilith smiled, and it was a cruel expression stippled in moonlight and shadows. ❋ Mel Odom (2008)

"stippled," it is covered with fine dots made by a graver directly on the surface of the metal after the plate has been etched and the wax cleaned off. ❋ Various (N/A)

a great if literal example of this type of treatment with its branded 'stippled' surface, but other brands also use the perception of the material use to borrow product values. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"stippled" the ceilings of the White House with interns. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Ten vocabularies scumbled inner hello, stippled wit black inc. ❋ James Greer (2011)

Starting in the 1970s, Mr. Crumb produced covers for reissues from labels like Yazoo, Blue Goose and Barrelhouse Records, and his love for the music is evident—a stippled Robert Johnson stares out in stark black and white, Bessie Smith sings 'Put a Little Sugar in My Bowl' and Charlie Patton gets his own mini-graphic novel. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The carpet was red, the walls were a stippled pink. ❋ Michael Chorost (2011)

In that place of darkness and great light, of absolutes and essences that are far removed from the stippled, reddish, purplish hurts of this existence, divine justice shines through. ❋ James L. Kugel (2011)

"Céret, Rooftops" 1911, nearly abstract, stippled with a vengeance, opens like a nest of boxes. ❋ Lance Esplund (2011)

The book strives to recreate the "unearthly inebriation" of reading Nabokov, at times by direct quotation, at times by imitation of his style – as when Zanganeh describes Speak, Memory as "no hollow monument to the past, no search into its designs, unseen at first sight, yet stippled, ever so lightly, in the texture of time". ❋ Unknown (2011)

The gleaming surface evokes the divine, just as the gold grounds of icons and early Renaissance altarpieces evoke heavenly space, countering the incipient naturalism of elegantly rendered curls, a delicately stippled beard, and carefully detailed vestments, once studded with jewels. ❋ Karen Wilkin (2011)

A similarly heightened, highly poetic, sensibility invades the etchings that began in the 1980s, black whorls and stippled textures fanatically worked, the artist relishing the "element of danger and mystery" that accompanies slipping a heavily worked plate into acid. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Accordingly, Wolverton's illustrations, done in the same unmistakable, stippled style that characterized his grotesqueries, show off the grim, the violent, and the destructive in the Old Testament, putting the blood and guts in the spotlight. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Her books capture the peculiar grandiloquence of children's speech; the ornate sentences, stippled with adverbs like raisins in a cake. ❋ Sarah Crown (2010)

I tap another smoke from the pack, light it off mine, and hold it before his stippled gray muzzle. ❋ Thomas Pluck (2011)

It's a fancy tan, black, and white bird, with feathers that are spangled, mottled, stippled pattern, or sometimes all three. ❋ Sandra Knauf (2010)

"Check out the [stipples] on that [babe]" "[woa], stipples" ❋ Slim_superman (2006)

"[Damn] [its cold] in here... [im] going to get stipples" ❋ Brydan (2006)

I was really worried our [techer] was going to stab me with those [stipples] coming out of his [tight shirt]! ❋ Booey101 (2007)

i heard suzie stippling. what’s stippling? [stabbing] your nipples. [everyone knows that], [barb]. ❋ Sleep420pact (2019)

"Dude, She just showed me her [stipple]!" "I'm feeling random. I think i want to go to the [village] and get some [stipples]." ❋ JayStylz (2011)

Person 1: Hey [can you] [pass] the [guacamole]? Person 2: Did you say gananole? Person 1: You stipple hipple ❋ Maybe Lazy (2020)