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  • In rooms with windows facing north or east, where the light coming in is cool, Ms. Olson likes warm, light-toned colors such as creams, caramels and buttery shades.

    Lavender, Wisteria, or Black? How to Pick a Wall Color 2011

  • Fflur Wyn had persuasive, light-toned inscrutability as Flora.

    The Turn of the Screw; Ariadne auf Naxos; Les pêcheurs de perles; Mitsuko Uchida Fiona Maddocks 2010

  • The choice of a light-toned but warm sounding Erard 1837 fortepiano makes all the difference to this expressive account of Schumann's Liederkreis Op 24, and his great Heine setting – the 16 songs of Dichterliebe.

    Schumann: Dichterliebe, Liederkreis Op 24 — review Fiona Maddocks 2010

  • Materials of unbleached linen or light-toned holland are used to veil reredoses, pictures, images; and crosses may be veiled in like manner.

    Archive 2009-01-01 bls 2009

  • Materials of unbleached linen or light-toned holland are used to veil reredoses, pictures, images; and crosses may be veiled in like manner.

    The Lenten Array bls 2009

  • Far more people know "One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)" from Frank Sinatra's world-weary 1958 recording than from the light-toned, almost carefree performance recorded by Fred Astaire in 1943 for the soundtrack of "The Sky's the Limit," the film for which the song was written.

    And They Could Sing, Too 2009

  • The artist was no less adept in his light-toned works.

    Yale Press Log: 2006

  • Materials of unbleached linen or light-toned holland are used to veil reredoses, pictures, images; and crosses may be veiled in like manner.

    Archive 2006-03-01 Fr Timothy Matkin 2006

  • Materials of unbleached linen or light-toned holland are used to veil reredoses, pictures, images; and crosses may be veiled in like manner.

    The Lenten Array Fr Timothy Matkin 2006

  • The artist was no less adept in his light-toned works.

    The Master of Landscape 2006

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