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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

  • 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.

    Fauré: Cello Sonatas, etc - review 2012

  • Just the amount of provocation that he creates: the half-tones and undertones and resonances.

    Edward Albee Festival starts at Arena Stage 2011

  • All the products are pictured in orange or black half-tones.

    Rodeo Days James Robison 2011

  • No half-tones exist in communication with airlines.

    Russian Aviation Agency Official, Interview Excerpts Greg White 2011

  • 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

  • All the products are pictured in orange or black half-tones.

    Rodeo Days James Robison 2011

  • 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).

    Lissa Warren: Christmas in July 2008

  • 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.

    Windows on a Wide World 2008

  • 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.

    Taking Stock of a Reticent and Reclusive Master 2008

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