Julia Glass

Colorful garments - ball gowns, kimonos, evening pajamas - made from yards upon yards of iridescent silk or velvet. I own an unjustifiable number of such outfits and jump at the chance to wear them. Against the etiquette about which I am otherwise all too conscious, I frequently, and unrepentantly, overdress for the occasion.

American Novelist

Michael Dirda

On any given day, I'm likely to be working at home, hunched over this keyboard, typing Great Thoughts and Beautiful Sentences - or so they seem at the time, like those beautifully flecked and iridescent stones one finds at the seashore that gradually dry into dull gray pebbles.

American Critic

Kate Christensen

Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays.

Judith Miller

I buy 1920s iridescent Scottish glass. I love the way the sun hits it every morning. You touch something and you know. To me, people should buy something they love. Buy something you'd want to come downstairs and stroke.

American Journalist

William Osler

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.

Canadian Scientist

Louise Nurding

The gold iridescent 'Naked' outfit is perhaps not my finest moment.

British Musician

Describes how light reflects off a surface, causing color changes.

Visual Effect

Often used to describe natural objects like feathers, scales, or shells.

Nature Inspired

The word can imply subtle, pearl-like lusters, not just bright, flashy colors.

Not Always Bright

 display so another one of these incredible shape-shifting birds of paradise that transform from something bird-like into something otherworldly is is this fellow here this is the male superb bird-of-paradise he has this incredible iridescent brush shield is sort of shaped like a

Tim Laman & Ed Scholes:...

 two things which are quite uncommon and the bronzy iridescent on the wing on the middle of the wing there you can just see it now at the Sun behind us just sticking out is a rare thing to see on this wooly next talk as well as the faeces that it covers its legs with

Safari Live - Day 27 PIPE...

 period of a few days and he practices he practices relentlessly when there's not a female the one i love is where he goes up on sort of tippy toe the feathers sort of go into this sort of ballerina sort of bustle all around and then it has this iridescent bib at

Filming Birds of...

 They compared these microraptor melanosomes to those of modern birds and found a close similarity, though not a perfect match, to the iridescent teal feathers found on duck wings. And by examining the exact size and arrangement of the melanosomes,

How do we know what...

 huge fish beautiful fish this fish is also known as the iridescent shark catfish because of its shape its shaped a little bit like a shark and sometimes when it swims on the surface it'll raise its dorsal fin and it'll look quite a

River Catfish Release PIPE...

 absorption-based matte blues and structural iridescent reds. Between these two, structural reds are much rarer. Only a handful of animals and rocks scatter red light and none of them scatter red light exclusively.

What is the rarest color...

 that scatter light to cancel out other colors, reflecting only blue. This is based on how the light reflects. As you change your viewing angle, different colors appear stronger, giving us an incredible iridescent

Animals Cannot Be Blue PIPE...

 And why? Because the lowly abalone is able to lay down the calcium carbonate crystals in layers, making this beautiful, iridescent mother of pearl. Very specialized material that the abalone self-assembles,

Richard Sears: Planning...

 rainbows of iridescent flashing sparkly white fireflies glow worms are famous light makers of the land but in the deep sea

Bermuda PIPE Exploring...

 iridescent colors so I think a jewel beetle initially I thought the cuckoo

Iridescent