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I still don't understand all those dancers in diaphanous approximations of no national costume that cavorted through Times Square all day.
It is a setting that conspires against self-knowledge: the soft lights, the kind words, the shape-flattering diaphanous teddy that, frankly, wouldn't hurt Trump's whole look.
[ 21 ] Other candidate genes are those that when mutated are known to cause germ cell deficiency in other species, for example the diaphanous gene of drosophila.
The first is the diaphanous curtain from behind which the Wizard speaks.
This new sound prefigured white, California cool jazz, but so had Billy Strayhorn's arrangements for Duke Ellington through the '40s, and so had Lester Young's diaphanous tenor saxophone playing with Count Basie even earlier.