What one person regards at doting, another views as gnatlike hovering.

Gnatlike insects drifted through the mist of light, and- "Where's the light coming from?"

That is less than a ringing endorsement for Schultz to stay on and fight the swarm of gnatlike charges.

Tiny gnatlike flying things drifted in the mists, only to be snapped up by the hungry petals.

Sean Curran is a gnatlike ballerina with flexed feet who keeps all the other dancers on their toes.

Skye-related fiction, and even an invaluable little treatise on the midge, a tiny, gnatlike creature.

They needed a scorer and the gnatlike presence that the 5-foot-8 Ronning, who could play left wing and center, could provide.

The blast, gnatlike to a suit of combat armor, hardly fazed the phlegmatic Hawaiian, but he dropped down anyway.

Mr. Baron's sound on the drums is gnatlike: light, shallow, speedy, with sudden high-speed snare rolls.

Gnatlike clouds of little gas-jet tugs nudge machinery and hull sections here and there.

But that powerful sorcery no more slowed the siege than did the scattered flights of arrows whistling gnatlike around the titans.

Five, four, three . . . Something buzzed about him gnatlike, then clinked against the gun, putting him off balance.

Octavian could have told him why he had lost his luck, but of course it never occurred to Antony to enquire of his most gnatlike enemy.

I stayed there, kneeling in the hall, and above me and behind me I heard the tiny, gnatlike singing of the light bulb in the ceiling.

It's quite graceful in its contradictions, somewhere between the warm hues of a Daniel Lanois soundscape and the gnatlike movements of European free jazz.

"Bugs," Troi whispered, and as if to confirm her words, a swarm of tiny black gnatlike insects flew out of the curve of the creature's horns.

The Voyager ignored the gnatlike ships, firing another spread ... but then Voyager turned bright white, hurting Janeway's dark-adapted eyes.

Most of the seeds, however, produced an incredible array of strange plants, many of them wheatlike, many of them gnatlike, and most of them hopelessly maladaptive.

He drew widespread attention in 1960, when he discussed, in a London lecture and a report in the magazine The New Scientist, how the gnatlike midge manages to flap its wings more than 1,000 times a second.

Then came the horror, as film of the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center was projected on the clock, running backward, gradually turning the towers back into serene monoliths with live inhabitants until a gnatlike airplane backed away.

Algae turns the fishless water green in winter, and in summer dense black clouds of almost gnatlike brine flies haunt the shore and your ankles (miraculously, they don't bite) and brine shrimp wriggle in every handful of water you bring to the surface.

Its steady emergency lighting didn't seem to attract as many of the gnatlike creatures, and the spill of emergency supplies from the shattered shell of one bulkhead reminded him that there was work he could do here before he had to make any irrevocable decisions about his future.