Lights were already twinkling from Manhattan's hazy background.

Sometimes a single bloom or petal is photographed in sharp detail against a hazy background that accentuates its structure.

Back at his desk, Cristman gave the "fresh from the field" design a hazy background and made Yozi fade to a lighter green from top to bottom.

Our babies quickly became the center of our lives, while our husbands and the world of work drifted into a distant and hazy background.

War ships, Ronsard said, though who they belonged to he could not tell; they were still too far out to see anything but the tall masts and wide hulls silhouetted against the hazy background of the port.

The left-hand VDU was full of Russian symbols, the other was a radar screen with a hazy green background peppered with white dots as its sweeping arm moved clockwise.

A number of images were carried on the screen at one time, rows of heads or hazy backgrounds where the user had left the field of view.

But then money, or something, seemed suddenly to have brought Gerald Seymour-Strachey from the hazy background to the centre of the picture.

Another striking image is the gnarled, spooky roots of a tree called Taxodium distichum thrusting out of the ground against a hazy background of bayou.

Steward was most in his visions, against a hazy background of vessels, and of individuals like the Ancient Mariner, Simon Nishikanta, Grimshaw, Captain Doane, and little old Ah Moy.