half-tints

Consequently, Paul had great success in the narrow social circle of the provinces, where his mind, always, so to speak, in half-tints, was better appreciated than in Paris.

A Marriage Contract 2007

Her figure, of medium height and broad build, with a tendency to embonpoint, was reflected by the mirror of her whitewood wardrobe, in a gown made under her own organization, of one of those half-tints, reminiscent of the distempered walls of corridors in large hotels.

The Man of Property 2004

If they were less vivid in hue, more subdued to the half-tints of her personality and her experience, they were for that very reason better suited to her mental vision.

The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

If they were less vivid in hue, more subdued to the half-tints of her personality and her experience, they were for that very reason better suited to her mental vision.

The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

If they were less vivid in hue, more subdued to the half-tints of her personality and her experience, they were for that very reason better suited to her mental vision.

The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

I find that repose and breadth in the shadows and half-tints do a great deal towards it.

The Mind of the Artist Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art Cicely Margaret Powell [Editor] Binyon

Reynolds seems always to have depended upon the small dark shadows to give solidity to his heads, without clogging them with colour or dark half-tints.

Rembrandt and His Works Comprising a Short Account of His Life; with a Critical Examination into His Principles and Practice of Design, Light, Shade, and Colour. Illustrated by Examples from the Etchings of Rembrandt. John Burnet

Tchartkóff laid down his pencil, conducted them to the door, and then, returning, stood for a while before his portrait, regretting the delicate lines, the half-tints and airy tones, so happily caught and pitilessly effaced.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Various

Should the image be in half-tints, it would be advisable to apply a grain of rosin on the gelatine film just before etching.

Photographic Reproduction Processes Peter C. Duchochois

Some one devotes a couple of pages to mapping out the infinitude of half-tints that composed a summer's evening view looking seaward from the North Cape -- a good subject faithfully gone into, but still not a satisfactory sketch even of the reality.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Various