Heather Watts

Misty Copeland is making history. During American Ballet Theatre's current season at the Metropolitan Opera House, Copeland will alight on that storied Lincoln Center stage, making her New York debut as the Swan Queen in the iconic masterpiece Swan Lake - a crowning achievement for any dancer, regardless of the color of her skin.

American Dancer

Tim Pratt

As I got older, I had more experience with borders. Some literal - living in the dramatically blue misty mountains on the line between North Carolina and Tennessee, and living in California - home to expats, transplants, and refugees from both sides of innumerable borders.

American Writer

Lalla Ward

Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.

English Actor

John Updike

Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.

American Novelist

Christopher Buckley

I remember standing in the crow's nest as we entered the misty Panama Canal, and the strange sensation as the 4,000-ton ship rose higher and higher inside the lock.

Pete Hamill

I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.

American Journalist

Stephen Gardiner

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

British Architect

Carl Sandburg

I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.

American Poet

Peter Falk

I lose things. I am preoccupied. I am misty. Eyeglasses? I go through eyeglasses like tissue.

American Actor

Thomas Hood

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.

English Poet

Use 'misty' to describe the atmosphere where finer, lighter fog spreads, not heavy fog.

Weather Conditions

'Misty' often appears in literature or poetry to paint a serene or mysterious scene.

Poetic Scenes

'Misty' can describe anything lightly covered by or resembling mist, like a window or lens.

Not Just Weather

'Misty' can reflect an emotional state when describing eyes filled with unshed tears.

Emotional State

When eyes are called 'misty', it suggests a gentle overpowering of emotion, often happiness or sadness.

Subtle Overwhelm

Use 'misty' metaphorically to signify a soft, not a stark, lack of clarity when describing concepts.

Level of Clarity

'Misty' can describe memories or recollections that aren't distinct but can still be reminisced.

Vague Recollections

 down into the lowlands. So stop and think for a minute. Try to imagine what the surface of Titan might look like. It's dark. High noon on Titan is as dark as deep earth twilight on the Earth. It's cold, it's eerie, it's misty, it might be raining, and you might be standing

Carolyn Porco: This is...

 as our light slowly light up the brine pool you could see a ring of mussels living around the edge of this pond this Parliament has got a misty layer on the top almost like a which is called him it's an amazingly diverse complex ecosystem and you're watching it

Discovering underwater...

 he turned on his flashlight because he wanted to see better, and the giant didn't run away, so he risked turning on the white lights on the submersible, bringing a creature of legend from the misty history into high-resolution video.

How we found the giant...

 Growing in the misty Sierra Nevada mountains, their massive trunks support the tallest known trees in the world. But even these behemoths seem to have their limits. No sequoia on record has been able to grow taller than 130 meters –

How tall can a tree...

 photography as a means to communicate because I had seen so many beautiful things that when I came back to my parents and my my friends and said look you should have been there four o'clock this morning was beautiful was misty and

Interview: Mattias Klum...

 Five years ago, for instance, I found myself waking each morning in misty Seattle to what I knew was an impossible What actually happened one desert night, half the world and almost half of history away? What happened, that is,

Lesley Hazleton: The...

 thousands of years ago first September it is called at a time so but Liberty misty had in the morning so we saw actually it was one line s three cubs and then and when the first guy pulled him in he said I've got a

Extremely Rare White...

 it's somewhere deep in a rainforest there's a lush tapestry of thin brown tree trunks and rich green leaves rising out of a swamp sunlight filters through a white misty haze and i see two monkeys perched on a

The Secret Life of...

 essentially a misty lake of hot sea water it's in a very unusual very dramatic setting adjacent to a power plant and surrounded by volcanoes and old lava fields this strange and steamy world of black

Blue Lagoon PIPE National...

 In the 8th century CE, Vikings surged across the misty seas. They came from Scandinavia in Northern Europe but would travel far and wide.