Though gossamer-thin, Cassini showed that Saturn's rings have complex structure.
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When everything turns out right, the frost looks like delicate, gossamer-thin crystals carved out of glass.
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Gossamer-thin layered chains are replacing a million rings or stacked friendship bracelets as the jewelry hoarder's look du jour.
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Navinder Sarao also had only a "gossamer thin" link to the 2010 market plunge, his lawyer Joel Smith told London's Westminster Magistrates Court.
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He said some of the Justice Department's evidence was "gossamer thin," and that their top expert witness' economic model lacked "reliability and factual credibility," and he noted that the government's own witnesses at some points contradicted their own case.
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Maher and Alex are sitting in one of those weirdly dislocated sitting areas that you find on talk shows and in upscale trailer parks, and after some prefatory glad-handing, they get into Breitbart's gossamer-thin coverage of the Russia investigations.
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"Stand up if you hate Scotland" reverberated around Wembley, once Daniel Sturridge, the Liverpool striker, had set England on its way to a resounding 3-0 victory that leaves Scotland's hopes of qualifying for the 2018 World Cup gossamer-thin.
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In recent years, proteomic studies of art works and archeological remains have yielded biological information of startling clarity, revealing gossamer-thin layers of fish glue on seventeenth-century religious sculptures and identifying children's milk teeth from pits of previously unrecognizable Neolithic bones.
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Johnson is a man who often seems repulsed by the very notion of fidelity, yet the moral demands of public office force even him to adopt a gossamer-thin pose of contrition from time to time, rendering him a kind of fuckboy in softboi's clothing.
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I used to think that there was an inherent separation between those of us who write about music for a living (or for fun, or as a passion) and those who cover hard news—a sort of gossamer-thin but diamond-strong barrier between music journalists, and real journalists.
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It was just the start of an eye-popping visual discourse on the art of the possible, which ranged from gossamer-thin crocheted mohair gowns inset with fur roses or traced with leather castles and creatures inspired by the early 20th-century Danish illustrator Kay Nielsen, to evening capes and coats with whole narratives in their wefts.
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"Having successfully created a false media narrative that this case is more about Maria Butina seducing NRA members and Republicans than its gossamer-thin evidence that Maria was acting on anyone's behalf other than her own, the government now seeks to prevent her and her counsel from even attempting to correct the public record," Butina's attorney wrote in a filing Friday.
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1; online According to Professor Richard Storry at Oxford University, "A check of Mr. Bergamini's references reveals the flimsy, gossamer-thin basis of his argument." He concludes, "The material that is presented does not supply a foundation on which to build a theory of imperial conspiracy."Richard Storry, "Imperial Conspiracy in Japan?" Pacific Affairs 45#2 (1972), pp.
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"It has Mayflower descendants, a link to the Underground Railroad, buildings that go back to the 17th century and a factory where women once beat gold into sheets with hammers.Who says West Cape May has to live in the shadow of Cape May's rich historical past?" From 1881 to 1931, the Hastings Goldbeating Company was located in the Borough employing women to pound one-inch strips of gold into gossamer-thin sheets used for decorative arts. Women continued to do the "booking" of gold leaf sheets until 1961.
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In addition to the general dungeon-clearing gameplay, the combat itself was criticized by reviewers like Padilla, who said that "the weapon use is the most disappointing facet of this game." Both Fahey and Mueller felt the combat, while initially fun, quickly became boring due to the simplicity. Chandran added that magic spells were too slow to be useful in combat, further reducing the complexity of the gameplay. Chandran and GamePro both criticized the "sparse and slow" story, while Fahey dismissed it as "a gossamer-thin layer which tries and fails miserably to hold everything together" and nothing more than several role-playing game clichés stuck together.
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