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Perhaps its most concise expression is Paul Verlaine's "Art Poetique": "Seek that which is vague and dissolves in air, that which has nothing weighty or imposing…not colors, but rather half-tones."
Incarnating the World Within James Gardner 2011
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Like the works themselves, his playing and that of the pianist Cecile Licad is full of subtleties, the half-tones and inflections that make the chamber music of Fauré's final decade so elusive and fragile.
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Just the amount of provocation that he creates: the half-tones and undertones and resonances.
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All the products are pictured in orange or black half-tones.
Rodeo Days James Robison 2011
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No half-tones exist in communication with airlines.
Russian Aviation Agency Official, Interview Excerpts Greg White 2011
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Clever half-tones, remarkably like, were published in all the leading papers at the time; but such procedure gave rise to nothing but the uncontrollable public curiosity and interminable copy to the space-writers.
SEMPER IDEM 2010
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All the products are pictured in orange or black half-tones.
Rodeo Days James Robison 2011
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But none of these reasons, alone or combined, explain my infatuation with books like Cat Talk: A Book of Quotations; Cat Alphabet; City Cats (with its black-and-white photos); and The Little Grey Cat Book (color shots here, but the subjects are half-tones).
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Surveying a huge range of printing techniques -- everything from woodblocks and engravings to half-tones and bar codes -- he explains and illustrates the hidden machinery of visual communication.
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His best and most typical still lifes represent fragile vessels, rendered mostly in half-tones, that sit, as though waiting for something to happen that never does, upon a dull gray surface.
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