Jennifer Love Hewitt

Elizabeth Taylor taught me that if you do your hair and makeup first then take a hot bath right before you leave, it brings out your inner glow and takes away the powdery look from makeup. I do that right before every date.

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Mary Nightingale

Hyams Beach is said to be the whitest in the world; walking on it is like wading through warm powdery snow - so clean it squeaks beneath your bare toes.

Use 'powdery' to describe a visual texture that appears soft, delicate, and dust-like.

Descriptive Imagery

'Powdery' should not describe wet or liquid substances; it implies dryness.

Not for Liquids

It conveys how something might feel to the touch, often leaving a residue.

Sense of Touch

Suggests a texture so fine that it crumbles easily under slight pressure.

Delicate and Fragile

While 'powdery' often refers to dry textures, it can also describe the feel of certain damp materials.

Not Always Dry

In the context of food, 'powdery' can suggest freshness and lightness.

Indicates Freshness

Use 'powdery' when the particles of a substance are observable, not dissolved or invisible.

Observable Particles

Powdery substances tend to spread easily, and usage can hint at a mess or contamination.

Implication of Spreading

'Powdery' suggests a thin layer of fine particles, not a thick or dense covering.

Fine Thickness

 afraid so that's also the other problem is now because it's winter a lot of the tracks and you can pick them up quite often the next day and they still look really good because you don't have too much rain or anything like that and because the ground is so powdery

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 are made of the same exact soot, that black powdery carbon dust that gets left behind in the fireplace when you burn stuff. And if you zoom way, way in on either my tattoo or Ötzi's tattoos, you'll find that they all look something like this.

Powdery

Descriptive Imagery

Not for Liquids

Sense of Touch

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