Then the body expired and the soul floated out diaphanously.

Just take a little leap and float up into the sky, your skirts spreading diaphanously.

I'd have the nightgown diaphanously blowing against the sunrise.

Color developed in the air, swirling diaphanously.

Some must have worn AG units, floating through the air like huge, diaphanously slow birds.

Fine choral performances also made this "Damnation" a pleasure, especially in the diaphanously beautiful dream sequence by the Elbe.

Mr. Nilsson dispensed with sharp angles to produce diaphanously feminine clothes that did not seem beseeching in their quest for femininity.

While the first third of the movie flows diaphanously off Ms. Tautou's delicate shoulders, she is not convincing as a vengeful, conniving stalker.

They were a bevy of beauties, clustered around a fountain, diaphanously dressed, languorously glancing at Sonny Trumie as he waddled inside.

The whole chamber was a recreation of some ancient Earth style, with pillars shaped as carved odalisques, red-lipped, full-bodied, and diaphanously clad, set at intervals around the walls.

His last contemporary novel, The Ghost, featured prime minister Adam Lang, a diaphanously veiled version of Blair and his manipulative wife.

"Happy Together," which is loosely, almost diaphanously based on Manuel Puig's novel "The Buenos Aires Affair," was made firmly in the spirit of Mr. Wong's serendipitous approach to his art.

As usual, Mr. Mason's staging is fluid and the John Lee Beatty set (diaphanously lighted by Dennis Parichy) is handsome, but one wonders why the director didn't exert a stronger editorial hand.

Perhaps the most striking cut on "Surprise" is "Almost Magic," a diaphanously textured showcase of overdubbed vocals on a song in which Ms. Straw pleads for one more chance to hold together a crumbling relationship.

Halliwell's Film and Video Guide describes the film as "a strong contender for the title of the worst movie ever made, with diaphanously clad English gals [sic] striking embarrassed poses against cardboard sets".

With his sweeping curves, bright colors, intricate backgrounds and diaphanously draped women, Mucha, born in small-town Moravia, rose to extraordinary prominence in the Paris of the 1890's, where he came to spell his name Alphonse.

"Claude Levi-Strauss" consists of two smaller but similarly bright pedestals, painted more diaphanously; on them perch representatives of the Other, in this case the highly specific but colorless forms of a taxidermic black rooster and black-and-white hen.

What ensues is pure camp - six ever-so-lithe maidens, diaphanously dressed, cavorting with six bare-chested lads, while the prop men dart among them waving illuminated wands in the night air, thereby simulating all the twinkling magic of the fireflies themselves.

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!

And I enter as per instructions on velvet toes, checking my hat and urinating a little as a matter of course, then slowly redescending the stairs and sizing up the taxi girls all diaphanously gowned, powdered, perfumed, looking fresh and alert but probably bored as hell and leg weary.