• Instead of a crew-neck tee, reach for a clean-cut accessory in a chalky shade.

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  • Yet the Vivanno's taste has received a mixed reception: some customers find it chalky and artificial.

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  • Vuillard's park with its chalky colors is looked upon, but not reveled in.

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  • But their large particle size makes them heavier in application, resulting in a whitish, chalky appearance that consumers find unappealing.

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  • Today those chalky plains are planted with vines that produce more than 200 million bottles of sparkling wine a year.

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  • He is sickeningly thin, his chalky white skin hanging in drapelike folds.

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  • The stars that salted the sky when I first woke are giving way to a vibrant Maxfield Parrish blue with chalky, pasted-on clouds.

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  • The DoC had just finished juggling the kakapo - moving some juveniles to Chalky Island and transferring 12 older birds back to Codfish Island.

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  • Pinstripes then as chalky as that other substance for which the '80s were so well known are subtle and blurred, and come in subdued colors like pearl gray and burgundy.

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  • To add the layer of grayish blue that distinguishes some of the more furtive lines in "The Sisters, " I tucked in some icy blue tweedia and chose a chalky gray vase.

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  • Instead of Nelson Mandela, Mr Hague's warm-up act was Jim Davidson, who has dropped his old jokes about his black mate "Chalky White" in favour of jibes about his previous wives.

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  • The slightly cloying, plummy oyster-and-bacon pad thai elicited the opposite response, as did Filipino short ribs kare-kare, which, though well flavored with coconut, peanuts, and pickled chiles, were almost chalky in texture.

    NEWYORKER: Talde

  • They and 16 other young birds had just been transferred from the kakapo stronghold of Codfish Island (Whenua Hou), an island right at the bottom of New Zealand, to Chalky Island (Te Kakahu) in Fiordland.

    BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | Rare birds killed by deadly bug

  • To the east of Bethlehem, chalky hills sink below sea level towards the Dead Sea and the ancient city of Jericho, immortalized in the Bible for its walls that tumbled under the blasts of trumpets (Joshua 6:20).

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  • It prefers settling on hard, chalky surfaces.

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  • Having found out what caused the birds' deaths, the DoC has swung into action to give all the 24 kakapo remaining on Chalky Island life-saving antibiotics, and to check on the well-being of those living on Codfish Island.

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  • It reappeared shortly afterward, on the opposite side of the city, popping out from behind a cloud, bathing Harlem and the East River in a chalky light, and, as though caught by a gust of wind, it rolled toward the Bronx.

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  • Large-scale protagonists occupy a shallow frieze across the canvas, with a substantial volume of space evoked by means of gesture, architectural settings, glimpses of landscape and, above all, relationships of opulent hues burgundy, scarlet, salmon, creamy off-whites, dull greens, saturated ultramarine, chalky cerulean.

    WSJ: More than a Mere Colorist | Veronese | Ringling Museum of Art

  • Ferrand, whom they bought out, was located in Grande Champagne, the most prestigious of the six cognac districts. (Champagne refers to chalky soil, also found where the sparkling wine of the same name is made.) That lucky happenstance gave Andreu and Gabriel the idea of creating a single-district cognac, similar to the single-malt Scotch brands like Macallan and Laphroaig that revitalized the Scotch business in the 1980s.

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