Sheer, white-wool side panels hang in room corners and "soften the overall effect, " Ms. Workman says.

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Her offerings include a plum-colored halter dress covered in satin flowers, a more tailored dress in black wool with more sharply cut flowers, and a white sheer man-tailored shirt paired with black evening shorts and a full-cut long black coat.

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The owner had window film applied, followed by white "sheer-weave" motorized solar shades to filter light but leave the view intact.

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Gulls swoop off the sides of the winding path, down the sheer drop to the white sand and turquoise sea hundreds of feet below.

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Regardless of the qualities, or lack thereof, of immigration law, the sheer number of non-American-born-white children making their way through the youth sports system means changes are coming.

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Stretching east from the pass is a long valley pocked with ultramarine lakes, watched over by sheer walls of striated granite that are striped with the wispy white of flowing waterfalls.

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But it's the little white plastic dongle that's the star of this show, through the power of sheer ubiquity, popping up in coffee shops and taxicabs everywhere.

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